Hi! I'd like to, in addition to my current backup setup, have a series of archival snapshots that I take every other month or so. This is an issue, because I was just asked to retrieve a file from 1998, which was (hopefully) backed up under a previous sysadmin, in some form or other, but which I'm having difficulty accessing. I'd like to prevent that from being an issue in the future.
I was wondering if there was a way to run an archival backup without disturbing my current regular backup as well. One possibility that occured would be to have amanda somehow keep the level 0 dump images on the holding disk and flush them to disk during the day (the regular backup runs at night), when I could have a separate set of tapes to insert. The reason for doing this is that I can't run the archival backup during the day (the systems are in use), but I don't have a tape changer, and I don't want to stop doing my standard backups during this period -- because if I'm doing a level 0 of every disk, it will reset the last 'level 0 date' for the standard backup as well, which might then not do a level 0 as frequently as I'd like for the regular backup... Any suggestions? Thanks, Ricky ----------------------------------------------------- Richard Morse System Administrator MGH Biostatistics Center 50 Staniford St. Rm 560 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 617/724-9830
