On Monday 22 March 2010, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Chris Hoogendyk
>
><[email protected]> wrote:
>> I've also tried just reading the Amanda tapes directly. It works even if
>> it is a little tedious. In my case the sequence of commands involves
>> ufsrestore, but that too is documented on the tape itself in the first
>> record.
>
>I've been thinking about an "amrecatalog" utility for a while now. It
>would be similar to amrestore, but would output a useable trace log
>file giving the location and header metadata for all files on the
>tape. This would be helpful during a bare-metal recovery with highly
>split DLEs, since you could use amfetchdump to reassemble the files
>once amrecatalog had generated logs for the tape.
>
>This would be a Perl script much like amrestore. It could also be
>implemented as an option to amrestore (maybe 'amrestore --recatalog'),
>which is already in Perl. There's probably still a window to get this
>into 3.1 if anyone wants to give it a try!
>
>Dustin
This is one place where GenesAmandaHelper is quite redundant. I not only
have a copy of both the configs AND the indices as of the end of the amanda
run on my vtapes, I use amanda style housekeeping in that scratchpad
directory I generate them in, in that directory tree also, so I wind up with
3 copies of all that, 100% uptodate. One on the tape, one in the
GenesAmandaHelper subdir, and the ones amanda actually looks for.
[r...@coyote f12]# ls /GenesAmandaHelper-0.6/config-bak/
configuration.tar.Dailys-1 configuration.tar.Dailys-26 dd.report.Dailys-15
dd.report.Dailys-4 indices.tar.Dailys-20
configuration.tar.Dailys-10 configuration.tar.Dailys-27 dd.report.Dailys-16
dd.report.Dailys-5 indices.tar.Dailys-21
configuration.tar.Dailys-11 configuration.tar.Dailys-28 dd.report.Dailys-17
dd.report.Dailys-6 indices.tar.Dailys-22
configuration.tar.Dailys-12 configuration.tar.Dailys-29 dd.report.Dailys-18
dd.report.Dailys-7 indices.tar.Dailys-23
configuration.tar.Dailys-13 configuration.tar.Dailys-3 dd.report.Dailys-19
dd.report.Dailys-8 indices.tar.Dailys-24
configuration.tar.Dailys-14 configuration.tar.Dailys-30 dd.report.Dailys-2
dd.report.Dailys-9 indices.tar.Dailys-25
configuration.tar.Dailys-15 configuration.tar.Dailys-4 dd.report.Dailys-20
indices.tar.Dailys-1 indices.tar.Dailys-26
configuration.tar.Dailys-16 configuration.tar.Dailys-5 dd.report.Dailys-21
indices.tar.Dailys-10 indices.tar.Dailys-27
configuration.tar.Dailys-17 configuration.tar.Dailys-6 dd.report.Dailys-22
indices.tar.Dailys-11 indices.tar.Dailys-28
configuration.tar.Dailys-18 configuration.tar.Dailys-7 dd.report.Dailys-23
indices.tar.Dailys-12 indices.tar.Dailys-29
configuration.tar.Dailys-19 configuration.tar.Dailys-8 dd.report.Dailys-24
indices.tar.Dailys-13 indices.tar.Dailys-3
configuration.tar.Dailys-2 configuration.tar.Dailys-9 dd.report.Dailys-25
indices.tar.Dailys-14 indices.tar.Dailys-30
configuration.tar.Dailys-20 dd.report.Dailys-1 dd.report.Dailys-26
indices.tar.Dailys-15 indices.tar.Dailys-4
configuration.tar.Dailys-21 dd.report.Dailys-10 dd.report.Dailys-27
indices.tar.Dailys-16 indices.tar.Dailys-5
configuration.tar.Dailys-22 dd.report.Dailys-11 dd.report.Dailys-28
indices.tar.Dailys-17 indices.tar.Dailys-6
configuration.tar.Dailys-23 dd.report.Dailys-12 dd.report.Dailys-29
indices.tar.Dailys-18 indices.tar.Dailys-7
configuration.tar.Dailys-24 dd.report.Dailys-13 dd.report.Dailys-3
indices.tar.Dailys-19 indices.tar.Dailys-8
configuration.tar.Dailys-25 dd.report.Dailys-14 dd.report.Dailys-30
indices.tar.Dailys-2 indices.tar.Dailys-9
As the (v)tapes are reused the old files are deleted and new ones
constructed.
The file dd.report.Dailys-xx is used by my script to track the use counts of
the tapes. That is the first entry, then a list of the contents packed into
the other two files follows. Handy to read as it tells you where to put
everything too.
So I have several ways of restoring in the event this cat runs out of lives.
;)
--
Cheers, Gene
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