Why have seperate build? What's the advantage of simply having
seperate configurations in say:
/etc/amanda/DailySet
/etc/amanda/WeeklySet
/etc/amanda/MonthlySet
My "problem" is simply to have an offsite backup, and, after talking
about it with my boss, we might go with a backup-on-disk + offsite
mirror, as in
-backup to disk1
-bring disk2 on first day of the month
-copy disk1 to disk2
-send disk2 offiste
-bring disk3 on the first of the next month
-copy disk1 to disk3
Much simpler and from our perspective it achieves the same result: an
offsite backup with bare-metal recovery possible.
David Montminy
On 09/09/2010 1:13 PM, Hroðgar Skjöldung wrote:
> 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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