On Thu, 10 May 2001 at 6:30am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
> 1) How do I go about creating a permanent archive of tapes?
> I actually want to dump newly created files to tape each at dump via
> amanda
> (i.e no incrementals, always fulldumps).
>
> I tried setting the following params, but I'm not sure this if this
> is right
> dumpcycle 0
> tapecycle 99999 # lots of tapes in the tapecycle...
Yep, that'll work.
> 2) I also want to remove the client files from disk automatically
> after they've been archived. However, I'm just not sure how to
> determine if a given set of files/filesystem has been archived from a
> client machine.
> Any clues on how to do this?
I'm really not sure what you're trying to accomplish here. If you
*really* want to delete everything you back up, you could have your backup
script run amanda and then, iff amanda exits normally, parse the disklist
and 'rm -rf' one directory below each disklist entry. I *STRONGLY*
recommend against this. Automated rm is a Bad Idea (TM). Leave the data
there, or remove it by hand.
> 3) Is there a way of dumping subdirectories to disk, rather than just
> whole filesystems?
>
Use GNUtar rather than dump.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
