Thanks for the suggestion. I suppose I would also have to do this when using my "amcheck" in user backup's crontab.
I'll try this out... I also saw the previous suggestion to try not even mounting my /backup disk, that would be cool, but I don't see how I could set up my tapelist to do this.... Scott Toomas Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi! > > > I am using amanda to back up to a hard disk on my system and would > > like to protect the backed up disk from accidental erasure. I thought > > one way to do this would be to mount it then run amdump, and then umount it. > > The disk is going to be vulnerable during the backup period, but "safe" > > when not doing a backup or recover. > > > > Is there a way to do this? > > Instead of just running amdump from crontab, run something to a tune of: > mount /backupdisk && amdump YourConfig && umount /backupdisk > -- > Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ > * I used to be indecisive but now I'm not sure. > --
