At Tue, 30 Jan 2018 14:29:24 -0500 [email protected] wrote: > > 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?
This what I would do: You can use amvault to make a backup of the selected backups. You would create a new virtual tape changer -- it need not have very many "tapes" and you can make those tapes of a size that works for some archival media like DVD sized (4.5Gig), with file sizes to match the max file size for DVDs (2gig). Use this as the target of amvault. Then burn your DVDs from the vault changer (one virtual "tape" per DVD). Or whatever you are using as archival media. The arvhical media could just be a an external USB disk drive that you have formatted to be a virtual tape changer that you are using for amvault, in which the there nothing more to do but store the vault disk carefully. If you need to restore, you have various options: restore your vault changer and point amrecover at the changer. amrecover should "just work". use amrestore to extract the backup files from your archival media. > Thanks. > > --EbH > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services [email protected] -- Webhosting Services
