Hey again Jon, On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Jon LaBadie <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Heck, I even learned about the Tower of Hanoi scheme! But one piece of > > advice stuck with me, and that is "when restoring data, you don't have > time > > to try to remember/decipher which files are on which tapes". In other > > words, backup / on a regular schedule, even if it'll cost you some disk > > space/time....it'll be worth it when it comes time to recover. I > suppose I > > can make things more complex when I get really bored. ;) > > Assuming you have your config keep an index, amrecover is an interactive > tool > that does this for you. With a date set it can determine which 'tapes' > contain the file as of that date. > Aha!. After I get a system working properly, it's likely that I'll go back to reconfigure it armed with a bit more experience and understanding to make use of these more advanced schemes. For example, I now know that amrecover can do this for me, assuming I have my config keep an index :) > > > > As I'm working out the backup plan, it's starting to seem that I'll want > to > > have a dumpcycle of 7 days, and then keep those weekly full dumps > > elsewhere. > > Again, you are thinking there will be a weekly full dump. Unless that > is a separate config that does only full dumps, and you run it once > each dumpcycle. Sounds like a lot of duplication of effort. > You're right, and I see now how my understanding was a bit off the mark. I wasn't intending to run a separate config just to ensure full dumps on Sundays, but I was under a misconception. Thanks for correcting that! > There has been regular talk about adding a feature to extract a set > of full dumps. I think amvault is a command that may implement this > feature. I'm unsure of its status. > I'll be sure to take a gander at that. > > Jon > -- > Jon H. LaBadie [email protected] > 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) > Reston, VA 20190 (609) 477-8330 (C) >
