On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 05:23:59PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 at 5:08pm, Galen Johnson wrote
>
> > Is it proper for amanda to not see the indexes for disks that have been
> > removed from the disklist but are still on the current tapes? I
> > recently stopped backing up a server to keep from getting a bunch of
> > failed messages in my reports. Now when I run amrecover and setdisk to
> > that backup it tells me that there are no indexes and yet I can look in
> > my var/daily/index/hostname directory and the indexes are there.
> >
> > Is this normal?
>
> I believe that amrecover does the equivalent of a "amadmin CONFIG find
> $HOST $DISK" to look for disks to recover, and this relies on the
> disklist. So, yes it's normal.
>
> You can either put the entry temporarily back in the disklist or get the
> stuff via amrestore.
Joshua is right.
I comment the disklist entry when I remove a disk.
I uncomment it if I need to restore it.
But I don't like that.
A solution could be to add a new option in a dumptype
active [yes|no]
alive [yes|no]
backup [yes|no]
dobackup [yes|no]
That say if amanda must do backup of this disk, but the disk will
be known to all other amanda command.
You will need to change the dumptype of a disk when it is removed.
Another solution could be to add it directly in the disklist file, as
a prefix before the hostname.
DEAD host.dead.com /disk/dead ....
What do you think should be the best solution?
Jean-Louis
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