We've been using Amanda here for several years, and it has performed
flawlessly. I haven't seen much information about what people are
doing for off-site backups, and I've concocted a scheme that I think
will work. I'm curious if anyone has feedback on it.
We've got a tape changer with 10 slots and the tapes in a removable
carrier "rack". We've always had dumpcycle and runspercycle at 4
days, tapecycle set to 10 tapes, and everything runs nicely
unattended.
My plan is to get a second rack of tapes, and set tapecycle to 20.
Then every time Amanda gets through the current rack, I'll swap it
with the other one and take it off site. If I forget or am unable to
get the off-site rack on time, the worst that happens is a backup or
two sit on the holding disk and can be flushed when I'm able to swap
racks. Since the dumpcycle is 4 days, either 10-tape rack will always
contain a restorable backup set, with the worst-case scenario being
that our level 0 is 14 days old. Since we do daily network off-site
copies of our most critical files, that's an acceptable time for
disaster recovery of everything else.
Am I wrong in any of my assumptions, or missing something?
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