On 9/24/06, Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com> wrote:

On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 06:38:17PM -0600, Donald Murray, P.Eng. wrote:
> I've been running 2.4.4p4 for some time now on a Fedora Core 1 box.
> I'm going to reinstall, this time using CentOS 4. I've backed up all
> the goodies I'll need:
> - /etc/amanda
> - /var/lib/amanda
>
> I've also done an 'amadmin DailySet1 export > DailySet1.export'.
>
> I've downloaded the 2.5.1-1 src RPM, hacked it for my needs (home
> network), and built some shiny new binary RPMs. One of the things I
> did to amanda.spec was added '--with-config=daily' to the configure
> section.
>
> So far, so good.
>
> Here's what I'd like to be able to do:
> - install my amanda RPMs on a fresh install of CentOS 4
> - configure 'daily' with settings similar to those I had in 'DailySet1'
> - run amanda daily using ... 'daily'
> - still be able to access backups made under the 'DailySet1' regime
>

One thought.  2.5.1 has some new features, uses some different config
setup, and perhaps some differences in the format of its stored data.
(not the backups, amanda's data)  That said, I don't know if 2.4.4
exported information can be imported into a 2.5.1 server.

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I've already confirmed that I can 'amadmin DailySet1 export > foo' on
Fedora Core 1 and then import on CentOS 4. The only downside to this
approach: DailySet1 is the config on the new install.

I'm starting to think I might have to create two configs for the new install:
- DailySet1 in case I need to recover from the Fedora Core 1 backups
- daily for CentOS backups