Greetings. Amanda has been running great at our site, backing up 28 file systems for 6 hosts for the past year and a half. However, there are 2 questions I have about amanda.
1) We run Veritas Cluster Server, which has the ability to move a file system along with its associated IP address. When we first tried to use amanda, amcheck reported errors eprod and prod1 were both names pointing to the same "eprod" host - and you are not allowed to run amandad twice. Our kluge at that time was to write a translation script that would take a disklist and run hostname on each of the hosts in disklist, and write a new disklist with actual hostnames. This makes the assumption that a failover won't happen during the backup. The better thing would be to allow amanda to back up prod1:/dg/prod1 even though the real hostname of prod1 is "eprod". I am curious if anyone has encountered this, looked into it? 2) During Disaster Recovery Exercise, it would be really great to use amrecover to read the tape. But of course, a DR exercise assumes that the backup host is gone. I found the script showing how to list tape contents with "dd if=/dev/rmt/0n bs=32k count=1 | head -1", (Until I discovered the dd trick, I was afraid my nightly amverify would have to be printed and accompany the tape....fortunately not) If I could just restore my index/tape host first, it would be better. The problem is, the order of the dumps is not constant. Is there a way to force it to put the index host on the tape first? Thanks Seth
