On Wednesday 04 September 2002 08:34, Martinez, Michael - 
CSREES/ISTM wrote:
>Is the /home/amanda/20020904/ (or whatever date on a particular
> day) directory a temporary directory used by amanda during the
> backup process?
>
>I had never noticed these directories before, until a couple days
> ago.
>
If you have index = yes in the amanda.conf file, then it will keep a 
database of whats on each days tape, clearing each tapes database 
out on whatever run re-uses that tape.  So if you have a dumpcycle 
of 7 days, and each dump fits on one tape, then you will have 7 
'sets' of these index files as it will generate a list for each 
entry in the disklist which is a 'set' of index's.  With a 
tapecycle of 20, I have a bunch of those.   AIUI, amrestore will 
use them to find the latest copy of a file when you need to restore 
just one file, or group of files.  Its worked for me a couple of 
times.

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