I used to work on a system that used Legato NSR as the backup/restore
solution.  In order to make life a little simpler in case of catastrophic
failure, I used to periodically take a tar image of the nsr configuration
and index files.  This way when I needed to do a full restore of the disk
that held these files I could just restore that tape first and nsr would
then be able to handle everything else without having to re-index all the
regular tapes.  Saved my butt more than once.

Do people do anything similar with Amanda?

If that is a reasonable thing to do, what are the minimum required files
that should be saved?

Thanks

    /dwight
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Dwight N. Tovey
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web: http://www.dtovey.net/~dwight
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