On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 02:53:20PM -0600, Patrick Presto wrote:
> Thanks for the Fast reply you rock!
> Is this the only way to do it you think? I was hoping I could use the tapes
> and just append to the last backup taken (somehow??). I would prefer not to
> use the holding disk if possible.
> If I did backup five days to the holding disk and then flushed the data to a
> tape, would I be able to use amrecover to restore data from any of the last
> 5 days? Would I have to do anything special to recover?
>
Every backup on the tape contains date information. amrestore
has an extra parameter for this case. From man amrestore
Amrestore extracts files from the tape mounted on
tapedevice that match hostname, diskname and datestamp
patterns given on the command line. The tape must be in a
format written by the amdump or amflush program.
[...]
Datestamp is useful if you have multiple amflush runs on
the tape.
So you will be able to recover any daily point in time.
The main risk involved is a crash of your holding disk. I
_personally_ would get at least 10 tapes and do 2 amflush runs a week.
Ciao
Dietmar
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