Doesn't amreport email what tape was used, and what mount points were backed up at which level every night? My amreport email is sent to a seperate machine. Wouldn't this solve the problem?
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 at 10:15am, Andreas Baier wrote > > > What do you do, in case there is a real emergency that you don�t have to > > figure out, on what tape which dump was written without having access to > > the index ??? > > A couple of things: > > 1) I use the lbl-templ keyword in my tapetype, which causes amanda to > print out a tape label at the end of every run. The tape label lists > all the filesystems that are on the tape and their levels. That way, I > know what's on every tape without having to even put 'em in the drive. > > 2) I tar up all the relevant amanda config and information directories. > Said tarball I put both in ~amanda on the amanda server and (via NFS) on > our RAID (which is also backed up by amanda). So I've always got two > copies of all the amanda info, up to date, on disk, plus on tape.
