Chris, Gene has provided his Amanda helper scripts for others to use. His scripts create amdump and amflush wrappers that will write the configuration and indices to the end of the backup tape/vtape. Thanks to Gene for his contribution.
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Main_Page#Tools_that_can_be_useful_for_Amanda_users If you have comments, please send it to the list. Feel free to edit the scripts and add it to the Amanda wiki. Thanks, Paddy On 8/20/06, Chris Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was wondering if anyone thought it would be a good idea for Amanda to write a footer file to tape after completing a dump providing a record of the tapes needed to produce a full restore to the state the system was in when this tape was written. I don't use amanda in a way that this would be very useful to me, it is only for home backups and I have a dumpcycle of 2 so I just need the last 3 tapes and I am sure to have all I need. However I was thinking in situations where longer dumpcycles and lots of DLEs are common it could help with restores if you lose Amanda and her data. The footer file would just be a list of the tapes from the last level 0 to now for each DLE. For example a file formatted like this, so anyone can read it without Amanda's help: /home/bob { //Tapes needed for this DLE DailySet3 0 Thursday 17/08/2006 DailySet4 1 Friday 18/08/2006 DailySet5 2 Monday 21/08/2006 } /home/anne { //Tapes Needed for this DLE DailySet5 0 Monday 21/08/2006 } etc. Restore Set { //list of all tapes needed for all DLEs DailySet3 Thursday 17/08/2006 DailySet4 Friday 18/08/2006 DailySet5 Monday 21/08/2006 } Chris.
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