On Monday 06 January 2003 13:18, David Lebel wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I'm new to Amanda;  I'm more used to "traditional" solutions like
>Networker or NetBackup.  That being said, the setup I'm currently
>administrating has been put in place by my predecessor and I'm
> wondering if people are using Amanda in an "offsite" strategy,
> where there is one "cycle" of tapes offsite (usually a few weeks
> old) and another cycle residing onsite (ie. the current ongoing
> cycle).
>
>My point is that I would like to be able to store a full cycle
> offsite in case of a disaster so I can full rebuild all my
> machines without the worries of having only partials full
> backups.
>
>Any hints?
>
>Ciao,
>  ..>David

I think what the schedule would look like would have to be 
determined by the dumpcycle and tapecycle values in the 
amanda.conf.  This wouldn't be too hard to setup if you make sure 
cron nag-mails you on the days the tapes are to be exchanged with 
the offsite tapes.  We as humans too soon forget a weekly chore. :(

I'm just doing my home stuff here, but with a dumpcycle of 5 and a 
tapecycle of 28, I could move a considerable percentage of my tapes 
offsite, *if* I had an offsite. :)

If you have amanda setup for a dumpcycle of 1 week, and at least 21 
tapes in the tapecycle, you could have the middle weeks worth 
offsite with only one trip per week to exchange them.

Since cleanliness is next to godliness, some sort of a well sealed 
carrier would be in order since autos are notorious for collecting 
trash.  Here its not a huge problem. I keep them in their plastic 
bookpack carriers when not in the drives magazine, stuck in an oak 
pidgeonhole box on the wall I made a year or so back.  Oak 
theoreticly isn't the best as its fumes have been known to attack 
blued gun finishes, but I've had no such problems here with the 
tapes coatings.  Your trivia fact for the day.  I haven't even had 
to run a cleaning tape in several months, so I must be doing 
something right :)

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