On Thursday 05 December 2002 17:22, Mark Stosberg wrote: > I'm curious how some you have dealt with the catch-22 of backing up > Amanda's configuration files. Ideally during the restore process Amanda > is available with all it's configuration files intact. However, if the > Amanda server needs to be restored, you can't restore them in the usual > Amanda way, because the config files to do so would be on a backup > tape...
This is a FFAQ (Fairly Frequently . . . .) - the sensible thing to do is to copy the amanda config files to a physically different disk, and preferrrably even to a different computer, even offsite if you want to be really paranoid. Kindest regards, Niall O Broin
