Amanda-Users

Re: Subject: Tapeless: How to make a SECOND backup?

2003-10-31 11:43:49
Subject: Re: Subject: Tapeless: How to make a SECOND backup?
From: Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:42:13 -0500
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 04:08:01PM +0200, turgut kalfaoglu wrote:
> Thank you very much for the info; it makes a lot of sense to create 
> directories and keep moving the 'data' symbolic link to point to that 
> day's backup.
> 
> This makes me wonder; is it possible to modify the 'changer' code so 
> that this symbolic link is "moved" to the correct subdirectory 
> automatically?
> It seems like a pain to move the link manually to the right 'day'/

I did not use it for any production backups, just experimental.
However the chg-multi script worked for me.  Each "tape" was
a separate directory and was listed as a "slot" in chg-multi.

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