On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Mark Berger wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I was inspired to mess with the Amanda program for the nth time recently.
>
> It seem to have the feature that I want - & some that I do not want as
> well!
>
> What I cannot seem to figure out is supposing I have 8 machines ( 1 main
> server & 7 others) & want to do a full backup of the main server every night
> & a full backup of one other machine per day either in rotation or ad-hoc
> how can I persuade amanda to allow me to label / rotate tapes manually &
> always do a full backup of the specified machine?
Look into amadmin <config> force. You could script this so that full dumps
are scheduled for when you want.
However, I recommend against this. Amanda's scheduler does an excellent
job of deciding when to do a full dump of each file system in the interest
of keeping the time for the amdump run roughly the same.
Forcing full dumps will just screw up the schedule and Amanda will do a
better job than what you are planning. $.02
>
> It appears to me that much effort has gone into the scheduling etc but I am
> completely unclear as to how I might just say "backup machine 10.0.78.56 (
> or whatever ) in full to whatever tape happens to be in the drive - no
> arguments - no wrong tape etc just do it!" . - Or for that matter restore a
> file / group of files from tape in drive to machine
> xx.xx.xx.xx:/directory/subdirectory
You seek amrecover, some time spent with the documentation would be well
spent.
Bill Carlson
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