Hi, I'm just starting to figure out Amanda and I have a few questions, hopefully not too stupid.
My main goal is disaster recovery for a few servers, which to me means having the most recent complete set of backups off-site. I'm curious how that would work with Amanda dump cycles. If, for instance, I have a dump cycle of 7 days, would I be guaranteed that I have a full set of data if I have the 7 most recent tapes off-site? Assuming all my backups worked properly, of course.
And since things don't always work properly, would it make sense to have 3 dump cycles in my tape cycle (I hope I'm getting the terminology correct) and keep the most recent 2 dump cycles off-site?
Now lets say I wanted to be able to restore users' mistakenly deleted files as well. Would it be possible to keep a copy of the most recent dump cycle on-line using the file: driver without having the backup data collected twice? I.e. grab /usr, spool it to tape, and save it on disk.
I hope I'm asking reasonable questions. I'm just trying to be really clear on how this stuff works before I buy all my equipment.
Thanks for your time, - Bruce
