>Yes, I see that as a valid potential way to go, if only it
>was that simple the script you are suggesting could run in
>advance of the amanda-server startup.
yes, in your crontab file you could add a line like this:
(say the script would be called dlmaintainer)
00 2 * * * (dlmaintainer && su amanda -c "amdump DailySetX")
ps: the syntax above works for redhat linux
>I'd thought there was a more automated way but this should
>work around the issue pretty well.
If there is, i don´t know it...
>You have any experience with comp-tar usage on sgi and solaris
>(vs discussions that I'd seen for linux systems) ?
No I don´t. What I noticed in my redhat linux is that the amanda comp-tar
backup truly uses the tar -cz option to make its backups.
I proved it when i made a backup using amanda and read the tape contents
without amanda, using the 3 commands bellow:
mt rewind
mt fsf NN
dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k skip=1 | tar -tvz
So, i believe that if your tar command works well on your system, amanda
comp-tar would work fine also.
Bruno.
> (See brian, i´m posting your message on the list, ok?)
>
> Oh, Let´s see if I correctly understood your problem: you need to backup
> your user directories, like /home/brian, /home/john, /home/melissa, (etc).
> But you can´t simply make a backup of your entire /home directory.
> So you, basically, would need a disklist file with the following entries:
>
> machine1 /home/brian comp-root-tar
> machine1 /home/jon comp-root-tar
> machine1 /home/melissa comp-root-tar
> (and so on for every user directory)
>
> However, you don´t want to manually edit the disklist file every time you
> create and delete a user.
> Is this right?
>
> Well, the first thing that occurred to me is to do a script that runs before
> amdump which would check what are the valid user directories of your machine
> and would write these names in the disklist file. (actually, it would write
> the correct disklist file entries, one for each directory).
>
> If someone know anything better, share with us.
>
> Hope it helps,
> Bruno.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Cuttler"
> To: "Bruno Negrão"
> Cc: "Brian Cuttler"
> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 3:28 PM
> Subject: Re: Using amanda with just 1 tape - for testing - SOLVED
>
>
>
> Bruno,
>
> I realized you are writing about tapecycle (my latest guess was
> that a tapecycle of 0 is a problem) but as long as you are using
> tar rather than dump I've got a question.
>
> I've got a couple of large partitions that I'd like to move
> from dump to tar, but only specific partitions within the
> disklist and I don't know now to divide up the data ? Dividing
> at highest level on the partition by username might work ok
> (directories at that level named for the data owner) but I
> don't really want to maintain the disklist (look to see if
> it needs updating everytime I create/remove a user data area).
>
> Are you doing anything like this ? I'm in need of the feature
> for both Solaris/IRIX servers/clients.
>
> What version of amanda are you running ? Or rather, what is the
> min version that supports what I'm hoping to do ?
>
> thanks,
>
> Brian
>
>
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