>... Will someone please take the time to help me design my
>amanda.conf file? ...
As Nate Eldredge said, probably the best thing to do is take the sample
amanda.conf that comes with Amanda, install it and then post the problems
you run into.
>I've read the Backup Central docs on amanda
>(http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda-11.html), and some other docs,
>but it's too deep for me.
Yeah, this is not one the easier packages to figure out. However,
to maybe get you started ...
>- I have 3 tapes that I would like to rotate for backing up /home
>(which needs to stay mounted rw during backup).
OK, then you want to set tapecycle to 3. And you want to set dumpcycle
to something less than that since you want to make sure and not overwrite
the last good full dump. If you've got enough tape capacity, you might
just set dumpcycle to zero to do a full dump each time.
>- 1 backup per day, at, say 1:00am. Monday through friday only.
Since your dumpcycle will be less than five days (since you only have
three tapes), you probably don't need to change anything else for this
schedule. The actual running of amdump will be controlled by cron,
so that's where you'll put the Monday through Friday part.
>- overwrite old backups or whatever tape was in the drive at the time
>of the backup.
That's going to be a problem. Amanda is going to want to protect the
tapes it thinks have data on them, which means it will reject the most
recently used one, for instance, if you forget to change it out.
>Onstream DI-30 ide tape drive.
As I recall, this tape drive has been reported to be very, very bad
on this list. The kernel driver is broken for it and it will not work
for any but the most basic operations. Certainly not for Amanda or any
multi-file backup software.
>Dan Browning
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