On Tue, 14 May 2002, Radu Filip wrote: - On Mon, 13 May 2002, Anthony A. D. Talltree wrote: - - > There's a lot to be said for printing tape labels or case inserts that - > document the contents of each tape -- or for printing each day's results - > and keeping them in a binder. - - In my case this cannot be done: I have a mission critical server, with - thousand of small files and there is an ocean between my location and - server location. In case of a disaster I have to be able to restore a huge - directory tree with more than 10,000 files within minutes or hours at - most. With a paper list and tapes that I have to get a visa and fly a day - in order to touch them this is not an option. - - As a workaround, I'm backing up all /var/lib/amanda/my_tapes on a diffrent - machine, but this is just an workaround. This is why I asked if baking up - index itself on the beginning of a tape so Amanda can use it as an - alternative it is planned as a future feature for Amanda, because in cases - when you need to restore everything in shortest time, this is really - usefull.
What I am implementing here is a second Amanda tape server. After the backups are done on the primary, I run rsync to syncronoze all of the relavalent directories to the backup machine. -- -- Stephen Carville UNIX and Network Administrator DPSI (formerly Ace USA Flood Services) 310-342-3602 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
