On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 01:28:06 -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> On Friday, December 16, 2011 01:07:50 AM Nathan Stratton Treadway did
> opine:
[...]
> >
> > Has anyone else run into this cross-configuration snapshot-file-clashing
> > problem? If so, did you find a better solution than using a "diskname"
> > value on each disklist line to manually ensure that the entries were
> > unique across all configurations?
[...]
> In each individual $configname/amanda.conf, find a stanza that resembles
> this:
>
> infofile "/usr/local/var/amanda/Daily/curinfo" # database DIRECTORY
> logdir "/usr/local/var/amanda/Daily" # log directory
> indexdir "/usr/local/var/amanda/Daily/index" # index directory
> tapelist "/usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/tapelist" # list of used tapes
>
Yes, these are the settings that work on the Amanda *server* side to
keep files related to different configs separated -- but there doesn't
seem to be a similar setting to control the "gnutar-lists" directory on
the *client* side....
(And note that the fact that the issue is on the client side means that
the problem can actually occur across configurations found on separate
Amanda servers, adding to the difficulty of guaranteeing unique
disknames across all configs. [In my case, I have one server with a
tape drive and a different machine with a big hard disk where I do
backups to vtape.])
> But I see a remaining problem, that of the amandates file. That also needs
> to be 'isolated' somehow. And even in the 4svnalpha I'm running, the
> ability to assign the location of the .amandates file doesn't appear to be
> there. Mine appears to be in /usr/local/var/amanda/amandates, I assume
Good point, the amandates file seems to have the same problem... (in
that the lines within it just use the device/disk name as a "key", and so
the same line would be updated by Amanda runs from multiple different
configurations).
Nathan
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