Chris,

Gene has provided his Amanda helper scripts for others to use. His
scripts create
amdump and amflush wrappers that will write the configuration and indices to
the end of the backup tape/vtape. Thanks to Gene for his contribution.

http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Main_Page#Tools_that_can_be_useful_for_Amanda_users

If you have comments, please send it to the list.  Feel free to edit
the scripts and
add it to the Amanda wiki.

Thanks,
Paddy



On 8/20/06, Chris Lee <cslee-list AT cybericom.co DOT uk> wrote:

I was wondering if anyone thought it would be a good idea for Amanda to
write a footer file to tape after completing a dump providing a record
of the tapes needed to produce a full restore to the state the system
was in when this tape was written.
I don't use amanda in a way that this would be very useful to me, it is
only for home backups and I have a dumpcycle of 2 so I just need the
last 3 tapes and I am sure to have all I need. However I was thinking in
situations where longer dumpcycles and lots of DLEs are common it could
help with restores if you lose Amanda and her data.
The footer file would just be a list of the tapes from the last level 0
to now for each DLE.

For example a file formatted like this, so anyone can read it without
Amanda's help:
/home/bob { //Tapes needed for this DLE
DailySet3 0 Thursday  17/08/2006
DailySet4 1 Friday    18/08/2006
DailySet5 2 Monday    21/08/2006
}
/home/anne { //Tapes Needed for this DLE
DailySet5 0 Monday    21/08/2006
}
etc.

Restore Set { //list of all tapes needed for all DLEs
DailySet3 Thursday  17/08/2006
DailySet4 Friday    18/08/2006
DailySet5 Monday    21/08/2006
}

Chris.

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