Here is what we do: We use vtapes in our Amanda setup. I wrote a small script that finds the most recent level 0 backups and uses amvault to dump those to physical tapes. I run this once a month and then archive those tapes. The script was hacked together and if I get the time I'd like to change it to use Amanda's Perl API rather than calling Amanda commands directly, but it has been working for us. Basically, it constructs a command line for amvault that looks like this:
/usr/sbin/amvault -otapetype="DellPV124-DLT4" -otapecycle=1 -osend-amreport-on=never --dst-changer robot --label-template EECS-VAULT-%%% CONGIG HOST DISK DATE LEVEL HOST DISK DATE LEVEL ... After the vault, it constructs an email that contains an amreport (with -otapetype set to our VAULT tapes) and attaches a PDF with the 2-hole punch label version of the report. We slightly modified the template provided. We then archive the tapes and file the report. This should allow us to do a restore using just standard Unix tools even if we somehow lost our entire amanda server. Cheers, Markus --- Markus A. Iturriaga Woelfel, IT Administrator Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Tennessee Min H. Kao Building, Suite 424 / 1520 Middle Drive Knoxville, TN 37996-2250 [email protected] / (865) 974-3837 http://twitter.com/UTKEECSIT
