On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 at 2:58pm, Bill Delphenich wrote
> Does this mean having multiple amanda.conf files; one for my "DailySet"
> backups and another for my "ArchiveSet" backups, along with duplicate
> directory structures for each? It doesn't look like you can define more
> than one configuration per "amanda.conf" file.
You're on exactly the right track. You *can* play tricks like having
'disklist' in your ArchiveSet etc directory be a link to the disklist in
the DailySet etc directory. But, in my ArchiveSet disklist, I sometimes
like to add disks that I don't hit daily (e.g. data disks I want a
snapshot of), so I don't do that.
> Is this documented somewhere that I haven't found yet? Is this a
> relatively easy thing to do, or a difficult thing to do?
It's pretty easy, and, like I said, you're on the right track. A couple
of things to watch for:
1) Make sure that you set "record no" in all the dumptypes in your
ArchiveSet config, so that it won't interfere with the DailySet schedule.
2) Make sure that the two configs don't run at the same time. You can't
have two instances of amandad on a client at a time.
3) Set the ArchiveSet dumpcyle to 0 and tapecyle to something big.
4) Make sure that everything will fit on one tape or you have a changer
defined.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
