> 1. Always that I create a new configuration (ex: > /etc/amanda/Daily5/amanda.conf), I need to create the directories on > /var/amanda/Daily5/index/... and others. Could I do this automatic ?
$ cp -R /etc/amanda/Daily5 /etc/amanda/NewConfig $ cp -R /var/amanda/Daily5 /var/amanda/NewConfig Then mark all the tapes no-reuse (or remove them) from the new config and alter the files to suit. I don't know of a more automatic way to manage confiurations. > > 2. I need to get the backups of all my machines. Do > I need to > create a /etc/amanda/Directory/amanda.conf for each of them ? No, you can just add them to the disklist file that amanda.conf points to. The example included in the distribution shows several machines being backed up by one server. > > 3. If I put 'dump cycle' to 5, the partition that > will be backuped > wil be divided by 5 and on each day 1/5 of the partition will > be backuped, > ok ? What will happen if the machine that is backuped, down > on the 4 day ? > Could I restore the 1,2,3 days before it down ? That's not how backups are divided. If dumpcycle is 5, and runspercycle is 5, then every disk will have a full backup at least every 5 runs. On the days when a disk doesn't get a full backup. You will be able to restore a machine up to the last time it was backed up, and if a machine was down on a day it was supposed to get a backup, the next incremental (or full) backup will still catch everything that changed, since it's based on the last time a backup was run on that machine. > > 4. It it possible to add a commando to eject the > tape after the > backyp is done ?? What ? > A pair of ampersands between commands (under the bash shell) will run the second command if the first one succeeds. So this: $ amdump YourConfig && eject /dev/nst0 Will eject the tape in /dev/nst0 (a common tape device under Linux) if "amdump YourConfig" ran ok.
