On Friday 23 May 2003 11:12, Gerhard Gappmeier wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>I've seen that amrecover needs its index files, otherwise you only
> can use amrestore to restore your backups.
>What files else do I have to backup so that amrecover can work?
>Is there a mechanism or script which can backup all files needed
> after an amdump automatically (i.e. on streamer too with tar, via
> network, smb, .?)
>
>thanks,
>Gerhard.

I've setup a small /amanda dir, with a subdir /amanda/config-bak 
within it to hold this data, and its both on the tape by being 
included as a DLE, but that data is 1 run stale, so the two 
attached scrips are the amdump wrapper, and the second one is a 
util to add this data to the end of the tape.  I've reduced the 
size by about 150 megs in the tapetype to try and make sure there 
is room on the end of the tape for the freshly generated indices 
and configs for this tapes run.  I've said I wasn't going to post 
them because they weren't "purty", so feel free to make them 
"purty".  They do housecleaning somewhat like amanda does, erasing 
the old configs to tape # so-and-so each time they are 
re-used-regenerated.  So one can fsf to the last 2 files on the 
tape, recover those first with a couple of dd operations, move the 
result to where it belongs and then run amrecover because the data 
is all there, and is current as of this present tape.
If you run these from the /amanda dir, then any pretties you add 
will also be preserved.  I hope they're usefull to you.

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