Amanda-Users

Re: Backup plan and big filesystems

2006-08-21 12:15:06
Subject: Re: Backup plan and big filesystems
From: Cyrille Bollu <Cyrille.Bollu AT fedasil DOT be>
To: Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:04:23 +0200

> >
> > What they definitely need to know is which tapes are to be pulled off.
> > All the tapes in the changer will have a bar code label. Can I instruct
> > Amanda to send an email with which tapes have been used for a determined
> > backup (the full weekly off-site, in this case) so that the people there
> > will have an idea of which tapes need to be substituted?
>
> How about two Amanda configs "daily" and "archive", with "labelstr"
> different for each of them (reg.exp. like: "Newbay-Daily[0-9]*" and
> "[Newbay-Archive[0-9]*").  And then just write that label on the sticker
> too, readable by a human.
>
> Then just the tapes labeled "*Archive*" need to be pulled out...
>

That's what I'm trying to say in my bad English ;-)