Hello,

A question about amanda's indexing and database

Short version: 

Does a mechanism to share databases exist in amanda?  

Long version: (best with an example)

I want >4 different configurations.  All but one will be in offsite
storage.  I want different configurations because then I will be assured
that each tapeset I have in the changer will be a complete set that I
change out each week for a new set.

example:
five configurations: Daily1-5
dumpcycle = five weeks
runspercycle = 7 days worth
tapecyle = as many as needed to be complete...
disklist, changer.conf, and common parts of amanda.conf files would be
hardlink shared between all configurations.


Each week cron would use a different configuration, and so long as the
dumpdates don't overlap, they won't interfere with each other.

The problem: to do a restore, I would need to remember or calculate What
configuration was used during the targeted backup time.  

The solution (I think): make a parent configuration of all of the
configurations that can be queried.  the act of setting a restore date
would tell the parent config what database to use.

Has someone already done this, or is work proceeding along these lines?

--jason


 
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