On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 04:41:25PM -0700, Marc Langlois wrote: > We would like to be able to recover accidentally deleted files from > amanda backups that are made more than once per day, so I'm running > amdump from cron every 2 hours during working hours. This seems to work > fine with the file driver, and with 20 "tape" slots a full backup is > done at least once every 2 days. > > The problem I'm having is that when I retrieve a file or directory, > amrecover doesn't seem to be able to access the most recent backup. I've > tried using the "setdate" command to both <today> and <tomorrow>, but it > only displays information about the last backup from <yesterday>. All > the man pages I've seen only list dates to the nearest day, but is it > possible to use a finer time resolution?
I think that could be considered a flaw in design. Amanda was certainly designed around a model of one run a day, not multiple runs. Nothing prevents multiple runs, but I think you are seeing the result of that design model. Maybe someone has a workaround. Though I've not heard of one. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
