> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Siegerman [mailto:erics AT telepres DOT com]
> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 8:18 PM
> To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> Subject: Re: suggestions for a backup scheme?
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 09:37:23AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > Then, have a cron job that copies in either amanda.conf.full or
> > amanda.conf.incr to amanda.conf before the dump runs.
> 
> Our approach is to have multiple Amanda configurations, with the
> same disklist (using symlinks).  The crontab entry runs a script
> that in turn runs amdump with the appropriate "configuration"
> argument.

Why so complicated? You can set the path to the disklist in your
amanda.conf. You don't need to set symlinks in each config-path. Set the
disklist to a path who ist not your config-path (e.g. /etc/amanda/disklist
for the disklist and /etc/amanda/DailySet1 for the config) and be happy.

Great weekend

Bernd