We are in the process of adding vaulting to our existing Amanda
environment, and I am curious to hear/see how other sites have
approached this.
In particular, I'm curious what policies you have adopted for what gets
vaulted, and how exactly you have scripted the vaulting so that you are
sure the correct dumps always get copied the correct number of times,
etc.
In our situation, our nightly backups are to vtapes on a large internal
drive, and our plan is to then vault to separate vtapes on external USB
drives that are rotated physically each business day. So I think we
don't want to use "vault-storage", since we want to let the nightly
dumps proceeded without concern for whether the next USB drive is
available yet. But what isn't clear is the best way to code a cron job
to run later in the day, so that it keeps track of which of the nightly
dumps have already been vaulted v.s. the ones that still need to be.
But more generally, I'm just curious to see how various sites have
implemented vaulting.
Thanks.
Nathan
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