On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 at 9:33am, Jon Stearley wrote > i've changed jobs and now have access to a central tape-library, which > you just ftp stuff into and it takes care of all the taping > operations. my role here is not one of sysadmin, but rather i'm just
Uh oh, be careful. If you show too much clue, you'll get drafted... ;) > looking for a way to backup my local desktop, using the central > tape-library rather than a local tape if possible. so i thought, > "maybe setup amanda on my workstation to backup my reiserfs partitions > (tar, with indexes) and then drop them into the central tape library > via ftp?" > > it may be stupid to try to use amanda to do this, but maybe it's as > easy as replacing amcheck with a script that checks ftp functionality > and returns an appropriate exit code, and replacing taper with a > script which ftps the images and returns appropriately. amrestore > could navigate my indexes, and then i'd just grab/extract the data > manually. Well, 2.4.3b2 (derived from the 2.4.2-tapeio branch) has the ability to use files on disk like tapes. You could back up to files on disk, and then have the cronjob which runs 'amdump' ftp those to the tape library. amrecover would still have access to your indexes, and when it asks you for a "tape" you just grab the right file off the ftp server/tape library. The advantage to this is that you don't need to modify any code at all. But I'm interested -- let us know what you come up with. And, FWIW, I don't think it's stupid at all. Use what you know, and what you trust. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
