On 22 Mar 2005, at 19:09, Jon LaBadie wrote:
Your runfull tag file:
Why should anyone who doesn't care see it; maybe a dot name?
Maybe planning for the future, the name should contain the
amanda config also?
Fair point, I have amended accordingly.
Your checks:
Depending on your ?paranoia?, what if something gets missed?
How do you want to handle it? For example, if the amcheck
doesn't run on the first Thursday, do you really want to wait
for 60 days between full dumps?
If something does get missed then I am happy to back it up manually.
Bearing in mind that tapes on a 7 day rotation are constantly doing
daily incrementals. So everything will be backed up on a weekly basis
to the ltsn config and we have monthly copies that are removed from the
building from the ltsn_full config. Either way everything gets backed
up every 7 days.
Maybe the amdump script should
write a file with the date in it, like "date +%y%j >
.last_lstn_full"
Then you could do things like:.....
The issue that I have there is somebody else handles the tapes for me
as I don't go anywhere near the site. The instructions I've left are
to put the 2 ltsn_full tapes into the changer in time for thursday
lunchtime evening and take them out again on friday lunchtime. I think
we both prefer the simplicity of the setup as it stands.
If things don't get dumped on the full run then I can manually dump
them to the daily tapes or ask my glamorous assistant to leave the
tapes in the drive whilst I schedule another run. I are most attentive
to my email logs so I normally spot when something doesn't get dumped.
Thank you for your suggestions John, I appreciate you taking the time
to help.
Many thanks,
Gaby
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gaby AT vanhegan DOT net
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