On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 at 8:02pm, Gene Heskett wrote > Not enough emphasis is placed on the fact that tar won't access a > file with any kind of a lock on it, and in the case of amanda, its > certainly a fixable problem. I recovered all the indexes and > curfiles and such but absolutely nothing else that could be > construed as a configuration file. > > So chg-scsi.conf, amanda.conf, disklist, tapelist & the rest of the > configuration stuff in /usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1 is gone and > I'm going to have to re-invent a goodly number of wheels before > amanda is back up and running.
*snip* > Comments everybody? This is exactly why my nightly backup script, after running the amdumps and rewinding/ejecting the tapes, tars up all the amanda config files and directories. That tar ball then gets put two places (on two separate machines), each of which are backed up. So, if my amanda server completely dies, I'll still have my complete config and set up as of last night. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
