New Amanda conf -> yes Hardlink HD and so on -> no (quite dirty / heavy solution; in France we call that "using a power hammer to crush a fly")
I think about 2 solutions: 1. RAIT that would allow you to point 2 different tape devices to write onto 2. if you're using 'disk' driver, you may find some solutions concerning replicating filesystems (DRBD, NBD, Intermezzo...) without completely noticing Amanda about that stuff :) On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 15:01:21 -0500 Eric Siegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [I'm CCing amanda-hackers because the answer to my question might > depend heavily on Amanda internals; but the discussion doesn't > belong there, so please reply to amanda-users.] > > I want to make two identical copies of an Amanda backup. This is > a one-off thing -- archival backups of a client that's about to > be wiped clean and repurposed. If it were an ongoing need, I'd > ask for budget for a second tape drive and learn about rait. > > I have enough holding-disk space to hold all of the client's DLEs > at once, so what I'm thinking is this: > > 1. Build a new Amanda configuration that backs up only the client > in question (reserve=0; also record=no to be on the safe side) > > 2. Run the configuration with no tape in the drive, forcing all > the (full) backups to holding disk > > 3. Hard-link the holding-disk files to another directory that > Amanda doesn't know about > > 4. Run amflush > > 5. Hard-link the holding-disk files back to the Amanda spool > directory (it's pure paranoia that I choose not to mv them > instead and thus dispense with step 7) > > 6. Run amflush again > > 7. Delete the holding-disk files from the other directory > > Does this look like a reasonable approach? My main worry is that > the curinfo database and multiple amflush's of the same data > won't get along with each other. Is that likely to be a problem? > > -- > > | | /\ > |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | | / > It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer > wouldn't throw his fellow band members to the ground and toss the > drum kit around during songs. > - Patrick Lenneau
