On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 at 8:02pm, Gene Heskett wrote

> Not enough emphasis is placed on the fact that tar won't access a 
> file with any kind of a lock on it, and in the case of amanda, its 
> certainly a fixable problem.  I recovered all the indexes and 
> curfiles and such but absolutely nothing else that could be 
> construed as a configuration file.  
> 
> So chg-scsi.conf, amanda.conf, disklist, tapelist & the rest of the 
> configuration stuff in /usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1 is gone and 
> I'm going to have to re-invent a goodly number of wheels before 
> amanda is back up and running.

*snip*

> Comments everybody?

This is exactly why my nightly backup script, after running the amdumps 
and rewinding/ejecting the tapes, tars up all the amanda config files and 
directories.  That tar ball then gets put two places (on two separate 
machines), each of which are backed up.  So, if my amanda server 
completely dies, I'll still have my complete config and set up as of last 
night.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University