On 15 Feb 2002 at 6:52am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > I am a new amanda user and have been very pleased with the first few > days of using amanda. I wonder however if it is normal procedure to > keep a copy of the config, index, log files etc on another machine in > addition to the tape server in case the tape server disk crashes. In my > installation, they seem to be somewhat scattered in /etc, > /usr/local/etc/amanda, /var/lib/amanda, possibly other directories... > > Is there a procedure for doing this? > I can't speak for everybody, but I certainly keep copies of that stuff. What I do is have cron run a script rather than just amdump. After the amdumps have run (I run two configs a night), I run these commands:
tar czf ~/confs.tar.gz /etc/amanda* /usr/local/etc/amanda \ /usr/local/adm/amanda /usr/local/var/amanda 2> /dev/null cp confs.tar.gz /data/amanda The first creates a tarball of all the amanda config and state information, and puts this in the amanda user's home directory, which is backed up. The second copies it to our NFS-served RAID (which is also backed up). You could also use password-less scp to move the tarball about. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
