On Friday 25 March 2016 10:42:31 Debra S Baddorf wrote: > AMVAULT will copy an Amanda backup from one media to another, and will > tell Amanda about it too, so that she knows the data is on the new > media. I used it to copy some LTO2 tapes to LTO5 tapes. > > Deb Baddorf (from phone)
Which may be a better way, Debra so I won't argue that my way is superior. But at the time I started on these scripts, I don't believe AMVAULT existed. Or if it did, no one advised me. I started working on them in about 2000 or 2001, before I had retired frm the tv station. But I was then still using tapes, unfortunately tapes with a very poor longevity, along with DDS-2 changer drives that could not spend the holidays anyplace but Oklahoma City. For a nice repair fee of course. :( Because I found hard drives to be 100x more dependable, and needed 1% of the maintenance tape drives needed. the advent of vtapes was a serious blessing to me and my S.S. budget. And thats when I got serious about my wrapper, which for me, Just Works(TM), for about 6 years now since I last had one of them in an editor. Questions about AMVAULT can be asked here, questions about my scripts too, but troubleshooting others mods to fit "their situation" is something I'd druther not have to do on a full time basis. Based on that, AMVAULT it is. > > On Mar 25, 2016, at 9:12 AM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Friday 25 March 2016 07:28:36 Marcin Stolarek wrote: > >> > >> I’m using amanda with virtual tapes (storing backups on local disks > >> of my server). Is it possible to move old backups to different > >> storage, instead of removing them? > >> > >> > >> Does amanda have a solution for backup of backups, to store them in > >> case of backup server failure? I know that vtapes are created with > >> standard Linux utilities and I can recover files from them even > >> without amanda, so I can just copy tape files(probably with some > >> snapshot), but it sounds like poor man solution. > >> > >> cheers, > >> marcin > > > > This is one of the things that COULD be done easier with the help of > > my scripts called GenesAmandaHelper, although I am not doing it. > > But it would be relatively easy to schedule a backup, using amanda > > or some such, of the complete backup sessions done in the number of > > backups you have scheduled, so if, like me, you use 30 vtapes before > > one is recycled by amanda, then that drive containing that 30 tapes > > could itself be copied to permanent storage, off that machine and it > > would contain EVERYTHING needed to recover. The way my scripts do > > it, all the indice data, and all the configuration data that created > > them, is appended to each backup, as separate files on the vtape. > > That way, a literal bare metal recovery is as simple as a quick > > install, preferably with the install image you were using when the > > failure took place, then install amanda from that distro's repo's, > > then recover the indices and configs from the newest vtape and put > > them where they go in the new image, call up amrecover as root, and > > in an hour or so you will be looking at the system as it existed, at > > say 2AM the morning before the failure when amanda last ran. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > -- > > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
