On Wednesday 23 July 2003 11:03, Kurt Yoder wrote: >Nicolas Ecarnot said: >> Hi, >> >> My Amanda setup keeps improving tests after tests and I still have >> so many questions. >> Today is : How could I do to make automatic flushes (autoflush) >> but without deleting the holding disk directories ? >> >> What I'd like to have is this situation : >> - cron launches amdump >> - the autoflush option is set, so as to write datas on the holding >> disk AND to tape >> - but to keep the last holding disk directory >> - Another cron would remove the (n-1) last hoslding disk directory >> >> That way, I could restore the previous-day files directly from the >> holding disk files, without having to go search my tapes. > >Just an idea for you: use rsync to make on-line backups of all your >amanda disks. This is what I do. That way, there's no tweaking of >amanda necessary (though rsync must be set up). Restoring files from >your on-line backups is then as simple as using "scp", "ftp", or >whatever you want.
I'll second that, works great. -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
