On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 04:41:25PM -0700, Marc Langlois wrote:
> We would like to be able to recover accidentally deleted files from
> amanda backups that are made more than once per day, so I'm running
> amdump from cron every 2 hours during working hours. This seems to work
> fine with the file driver, and with 20 "tape" slots a full backup is
> done at least once every 2 days.
> 
> The problem I'm having is that when I retrieve a file or directory,
> amrecover doesn't seem to be able to access the most recent backup. I've
> tried using the "setdate" command to both <today> and <tomorrow>, but it
> only displays information about the last backup from <yesterday>. All
> the man pages I've seen only list dates to the nearest day, but is it
> possible to use a finer time resolution?

I think that could be considered a flaw in design.

Amanda was certainly designed around a model of one run a day,
not multiple runs.  Nothing prevents multiple runs, but I think
you are seeing the result of that design model.

Maybe someone has a workaround.  Though I've not heard of one.
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