> Dear all, > > say your amanda backup server itself dies, and you need to > reinstall/recreate it from scratch. > > You want the new backup server to have available the information needed to > find and restore data from tapes, i.e. the info you get when running: > amadmin config find server_name disk > or like when you restore something from a specific date, when the server > tells you which tapes you need to do the restore (while using amrecoger). > > What do you need to back up on the current backup server to enable you to > get the new server to this state?
I understand that you are interested in the possibility to reuse the back-up on tape, not by restoring the amanda server. I assume that you'd know how to rebuild an Amanda server from scratch, but then you'd need all the previous tape to be usable (that's how I set-up the strategy we are currently using). What we keep up is: - Amanda index database (from amanda user home directory/Daily-Setxxx) - Amanda config files (from usuall /usr/local/etc/amanda?) I do that by: - rsync'ing the above mentionned directories to another machine - emailing to Amanda operators the result of amadmin export See: https://wwws.cs.ait.ac.th/amanda/operator.shtml#database The command amdatabase is a home coocked script. Best regards, Olivier