Hi,
On Sep 8, 2010, at 1:40 PM, David Montminy wrote:
> We are already using amanda to backup to Tape,
<snip>
> -Switch External Harddrive every 4 week to send off-site.
>
> It is do-able with Amanda? Won't the vtape-changer have problem with the
> fact that I'm removing/replacing hard-drives?
I think he real question is what your catalog has. The vtapes catalog
would be overwritten and amanda and wound't know that you still have that
data... So you need to move your catalog along with the data... but that
sounds a bit fishy.
I personally have a separate build for each amanda backup type. 2 daily(24
cycle), 2 monthly(12 cycle) and 2 yearly(archived). In my case I could
theoretically just move the build with the vtapes offsite, and then restore
both when needed.
So, this would work for what you are suggesting, but you'd want to script the
build unless you are patient. Once you've made your first build you'd want to
script the rest.
# eg
./configure --prexif=/opt/amanda0-4 $other_args && make && make install
./configure --prexif=/opt/amanda4-8 $other_args && make && make install
./configure --prexif=/opt/amanda8-12 $other_args && make && make install
...
./configure --prexif=/opt/amanda/48-52 $other_args && make && make install
**But dont forget to place the amanda builds ('/opt/amanda#') with the drives
when you take them away.
How does that sound? Anyway you might also ask the amanda mailing
list since there may be a better solution.
Gangi þér vel!
Hro
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