On Wednesday 13 November 2002 10:06, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
>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.

So it looks as if I'm going to have to reinvent that wheel too.
I take it that must depend on the system, Jon L. tells me his 
backups do contain all that.  I *think* he's doing solaris.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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