On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 10:10 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 09:39:56AM -0500, Vicki Stanfield wrote: > > I have set up an alternate amanda.conf to run with two tape drives > > instead of the one that I currently have. I am wondering whether there > > is some way to rerun an incremental backup if I run it and something in > > my new configuration is out of whack. Since there is stateful data > > involved which presumably would not be available after the backup ran, > > is there a way to get it back so that problem could be corrected and the > > backup rerun? > > In trying to think of potential problems, I don't really come up with > any which would cause amanda to think it has had a successful run > when it failed unless some component was "lying" about its success; > e.g. a tape system saying it was accepting the data when the tape > was sitting there broken and spinning. So I don't think the stateful > data would reflect a false situation. Maybe you or someone else > would think of other scenarios than I've come up with. > > Although amdump, which starts a backup, is normally run from a cron job, > there is no reason why you can't start it manually if the cron job fails. > > jl
Thanks. I was unsure of whether this was a potential problem or not. As long as Amanda tells me that there was a problem and dumps to the spool, I am happy. Vicki
