Putting on my Amanda hat

Hi guys,

I've successfully setup an Amanda server to backup some two Linuxservers and one Windows server to a SDX-300C 35GB SCSI tape.

Doing so and figuring out all of the little quirks has been a tryingexperience, and the FOM is in a horrendous state.

That said, I still have more backup needs I want to use AMANDA with, andhopefully I'll be able to update the FOM based on that.


I have 10 tapes running daily with runspercycle 9 and dumpcycle 2 weeks.

I want to have another cycle running every other Friday (two weeks), butcron doesn't seem to be able to handle that. I posted to thefedora-list and someone posted this[1] script (yes, yes, I know it'snot ready for submission yet. It needs modification before it's usefulfor what I want...). I was thinking someone would have something basedon the "at" command, but this looks ok too.

It would be nice to have some contributed scripts for these typicaltypes of things AMANDA is used for.

I also want to backup to a filesystem several windows machines, but I'dlike to find a way to avoid the inevitable locked files that may be found.

I'm thinking of saving backup images to a remote server over a VPNconnection (and possibly after encrypting the backup data also). Hasused AMANDA in a setup like this?

Anyway, I plan on using my shell and perl scripting skills to help whenI can, and especially fix the documentation!


Mike
[1]
if test -f /etc/foo
then
   rm -f /etc/foo
else
   touch /etc/foo
   exit 0
fi