I feel like I've asked this before, but I can't find any emails. I can't believe this isn't an FAQ. Or rather, there is an FAQ, but the answer is (a) very sparse and (b) doesn't really answer the question.
I had a machine. That machine was getting regular backups. The machine died. I have replaced it with a new machine. So having had this emergency, I now want to keep, in perpetuity, my last full backup of the now-dead machine. The FAQ says to create separate backups, which I guess would have been useful advice had I known in advance that the machine was going to die. I have virtual tapes set up on a large disk. I'm not sure if that matters. The backup in question is on (virtual) tape number 17. So let's say I take the approparite files that are in my /storage/amanda/vtapes/slot17 directory and copy them somewhere safe. Six months go by, my real slot17 gets reused, and I take those old files and copy them into slot44. What is my next step? How do I get those backups back into my amanda index so that I can amrecover from them? Is that what amreindex does? Is that what amrestore does? Thanks. --EbH
