On Wednesday 04 September 2002 08:34, Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM wrote: >Is the /home/amanda/20020904/ (or whatever date on a particular > day) directory a temporary directory used by amanda during the > backup process? > >I had never noticed these directories before, until a couple days > ago. > If you have index = yes in the amanda.conf file, then it will keep a database of whats on each days tape, clearing each tapes database out on whatever run re-uses that tape. So if you have a dumpcycle of 7 days, and each dump fits on one tape, then you will have 7 'sets' of these index files as it will generate a list for each entry in the disklist which is a 'set' of index's. With a tapecycle of 20, I have a bunch of those. AIUI, amrestore will use them to find the latest copy of a file when you need to restore just one file, or group of files. Its worked for me a couple of times.
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