On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 01:49:53AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 13 February 2005 16:43, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > >Until recently I had a DDS3 tape streamer. Then it broke down a few > >weeks ago and I bought a DDS4 tape streamer. I therefore have a lot > > of DDS3 tapes which I like to use for incremental back-ups because > > the new tape streamer can also handle DDS3 tapes. I will then ear > > mark the DDS4 tapes for full back-ups. Is that possible and how can > > that be accomplished? > > Not with only one config setup. And with 2, then the one you would > like to use for incrementals doesn't know anything about the fulls, > so it gets a tummy ache. > ... > > I just had an intrigueing idea though. What if there were two > identical config dirs setup, each subdir for the data amanda keeps > was lndir'ed to yet a third dir which was then the common dir for all > of amanda's data. The only real files in the two config dirs would > be the amanda.conf, and the tapelist. It seems like a bit of hassle > for the initial setup, but could anyone throw a showstopper into this > picture?
For a while (about 18-24 months) I was running an archive config similar to that. It was only run sporadically, about 10 times total, and I have only done a few file recoveries. But they worked. My objective was separation of the disklists among the two configs. System files (/, /opt, /var, ...) and user+data files (/home, ...). Same tape list was used, same index, same curinfo, same logfiles, ... Main difference was amanda.conf and disklist. I kept a three directory structure, archive-sys, archive-user, and archive-common. IIRC, even the amanda.conf files were the same, though not expecting that I kept them separate. Most of the rest that joined them was not links, but entries in the amanda.conf file, like logdir, curdir, etc. pointing to the archive-common tree. tapelist might have been links as were a few others. It worked for what I wanted, the ability to archive user or system files "on demand". But it is pretty limited experience to hang your hat on. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
