On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 at 3:04pm, Morse, Richard E. wrote > 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...
What I do is have a second setup for archival dumps, called (appropriately enought) Archive. In all the dumptypes in that config, I've set 'record no', which gets around the last issue you mention above (disturbing the schedule of level 0s in the Daily config). Basically, setting this prevents dump/tar from updating /etc/dumpdates (or /etc/amandates). As for competition for the tape drive, I just let the Daily config go into degraded mode and dump to disk on nights when I'm doing an Archive dump. Again, you're not messing up the schedule for Daily with 'record no'. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
