On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 03:42:52PM -0700, David Olbersen wrote:
> [...] would like amanda to help me do a final level 0 dump of everything on 
> [a soon-to-be-decommissioned] machine.
> 
> Would it be easiest to create a new configuration with just this machine, a 
> new tape label (<Server>01, <Server>02, ...), and run amdump sometime after 
> the normal backups finish?

That's what I'd do.

Don't forget "record no".  (That doesn't actually matter in your
case, since the machine's going out of service anyway, but in the
general case, one wants to set this to keep the special backup
from messing up the regular cycle.)

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