Thanks all! Another reason I love amanda - the support is incredible!
On 23.03.2012 09:58, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > On 3/23/12 10:33 AM, Matt wrote: > >> I would like to be able to make sure that if my backup server dies with a catastrophic hard disk crash, I can get my backups restored from Amazon S3. Right now, I run my backups to Amazon S3. What additional files would I need to copy to another server to make sure I can run amrestore on a separate server to get my files back? > > I have a job that runs right after the amanda backups that backs up the amanda backup user's home > directory to another computer. Basically, each of my Amanda backup servers (in different buildings > and departments) back up each other that way. The home directory that was backed up onto the other > server gets backed up and put on tape by the other server. > > If your configuration is, say, daily, then the files of interest are in the daily directory under > the amanda backup user's home directory. They include the amanda.conf, the index directory, > disklist, tapelist, changer information, etc. I found it easiest to just back up the entire directory. > > So, I might have a crontab entry on one of my backup servers as follows: > > 45 22 * * 1-5 su - amanda -c "/usr/local/sbin/amdump daily" > /dev/null; > /usr/local/adm/backup/daily-amanda-config; /usr/local/bin/amchanger daily unload > > That stacks the backup, the backup of the home directory afterwords, and a script that I wrote to > unload the tape after the backup. Each runs after the other completes. > > -- > --------------- > > Chris Hoogendyk > > - > O__ ---- Systems Administrator > c/ /'_ --- Biology& Geology Departments > (*) (*) -- 140 Morrill Science Center > ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst > > --------------- > > Erdös 4 -- Matt Burkhardt, MS Technology Management [email protected] c - 301-802-3235 o - 301-682-7901 502 Fairview Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 http://www.imparisystems.com Links: ------ [1] mailto:[email protected]
