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Testing amanda: running amdump "early" and other questions
2003-09-09 10:32:38
Hi,
I seem to have Amanda running successfully. It ran last night and the
report showed no problems, but I have a couple of questions that I
haven't found answers to.
I've added a couple of DLEs to the configuration this morning. I'd like
to try running amdump "early" instead of waiting for the nightly cron
job to run it so that if it works I can add a few more DLEs sooner. Is
it a bad idea to run amdump manually before it's "supposed" to run? What
effect would this have on the tapecycle/dumpcycle/runspercycle?
Also, I'm not here to change tapes on weekends, so I've got cron running
nightly Monday-Friday and amanda.conf has..
dumpcycle 2 weeks
runspercycle 10
tapecycle 20
That seems right, but it's a little confusing (too much Googling can be
a bad thing :)
Oh, one more thing...
The default amanda.conf file (Amanda 2.4.4) uses the following dumptype
format...
define dumptype user-tar {
program "GNUTAR"
comment "Partitions dumped with tar"
options no-compress, index, exclude-list "/etc/amanda/exclude.gtar"
}
Will indexing be enabled in that case? In my case, I'm getting the "no
index records." error when running amrecover. Most of the examples use
"index yes" instead. Which is it?
--
Jack Baty
Thanks
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