On Friday, December 16, 2011 09:22:47 AM Nathan Stratton Treadway did opine:
> 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.... > Humm, and I mentally blew off that the problem was client side, my apologies. > (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 Sounds like its time for Jean-Louis to chime in here, this is ground I haven't walked on in my much simpler 2 machine setup. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> Once is happenstance, Twice is coincidence, Three times is enemy action. -- Auric Goldfinger
