Re: temporarily remove a system

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 20 May 2018 16:09:37 Jon LaBadie wrote:

> On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 04:47:36AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Sunday 20 May 2018 02:55:31 Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > > I have one system that will be down for an unknown time.
> > >
> > > How best to stop amanda from trying, and failing, to
> > > back up the DLEs of that system.  Is it as simple as
> > > commenting out the DLEs?  Then if I do need to recover,
> > > or it comes back on line, uncomment the entries?
> >
> > Thats how I've been doing it for decades.
>
> Me too, though that has typically been for fairly short
> times.  At least short relative to my tape cycle.
>
> I'm going to have to look at some of those "new-fangled"
> amanda commands like amvault or am??? and see if I can
> save about the last months' worth of dumps from that
> system.  Maybe store it in some separate data structure
> than my current vtape collection.  Then it would not
> matter if they get overwritten.
>
> Suggestions?

Not really Jon. My tape cycle is 30, dumpcycle is 7 days, and if I don't 
find I need it again in that time frame, and the last copy gets 
overwritten, I might be a bit piffed, but I can likely, if is really 
important, write another, probably better version.

So I don't really have any better ideas short of setting up a weekly full 
backup of everything, and stashing it on a bigger drive for off site 
storage. I may regret not doing it at some point, but its still here on 
the main drive.  And if I do an updated install, its always to a new 
drive while this one becomes sdc or sdd so I copy back the important 
stuff.

I wish I did have some good suggestions, you've helped me a lot over the 
last 20 years, and I'm grateful for that. Thank you.
 
>
> jl
>
> > > Alternatively, is there some disktype entry that says
> > > basically "never backup this DLE unless forced with
> > > amadmin".
> > >
> > > Jon
> >
> > Copyright 2018 by Maurice E. Heskett
> > --
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> > --
> > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
> >  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> > -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> > Genes Web page 
> >
> >>> End of included message <<<



Copyright 2018 by Maurice E. Heskett
-- 
Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page 

Re: temporarily remove a system

[C. Chan]

It would be nice if amdump had some kind of --exclude-host flag
which would skip over that host even if it is in the disklist
file.

Also Sprach Jon LaBadie:


On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 08:44:03AM -0600, ghe wrote:

On 05/20/2018 12:55 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote:

I have one system that will be down for an unknown time.

How best to stop amanda from trying, and failing, to
back up the DLEs of that system.  Is it as simple as
commenting out the DLEs?


How about turning the cron job off and on?



There are still 25 other DLEs to back up.
I guess I could modify the cronjob to specify the
hosts to backup.

jon
--
Jon H. LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com
11226 South Shore Rd.  (703) 787-0688 (H)
Reston, VA  20190  (703) 935-6720 (C)




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C. Chan 
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Re: temporarily remove a system

[Jon LaBadie]

On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 04:47:36AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 20 May 2018 02:55:31 Jon LaBadie wrote:
> 
> > I have one system that will be down for an unknown time.
> >
> > How best to stop amanda from trying, and failing, to
> > back up the DLEs of that system.  Is it as simple as
> > commenting out the DLEs?  Then if I do need to recover,
> > or it comes back on line, uncomment the entries?
> >
> Thats how I've been doing it for decades.

Me too, though that has typically been for fairly short
times.  At least short relative to my tape cycle.

I'm going to have to look at some of those "new-fangled"
amanda commands like amvault or am??? and see if I can
save about the last months' worth of dumps from that
system.  Maybe store it in some separate data structure
than my current vtape collection.  Then it would not
matter if they get overwritten.

Suggestions?

jl

> > Alternatively, is there some disktype entry that says
> > basically "never backup this DLE unless forced with
> > amadmin".
> >
> > Jon
> 
> 
> 
> Copyright 2018 by Maurice E. Heskett
> -- 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
> --
> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
>  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> Genes Web page 
>>> End of included message <<<

-- 
Jon H. LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com
 11226 South Shore Rd.  (703) 787-0688 (H)
 Reston, VA  20190  (703) 935-6720 (C)

Re: temporarily remove a system

[Jon LaBadie]

On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 08:44:03AM -0600, ghe wrote:
> On 05/20/2018 12:55 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > I have one system that will be down for an unknown time.
> > 
> > How best to stop amanda from trying, and failing, to
> > back up the DLEs of that system.  Is it as simple as
> > commenting out the DLEs?  
> 
> How about turning the cron job off and on?
> 

There are still 25 other DLEs to back up.
I guess I could modify the cronjob to specify the
hosts to backup.

jon
-- 
Jon H. LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com
 11226 South Shore Rd.  (703) 787-0688 (H)
 Reston, VA  20190  (703) 935-6720 (C)

Re: temporarily remove a system

[ghe]

On 05/20/2018 12:55 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> I have one system that will be down for an unknown time.
> 
> How best to stop amanda from trying, and failing, to
> back up the DLEs of that system.  Is it as simple as
> commenting out the DLEs?  

How about turning the cron job off and on?

-- 
Glenn English

Re: temporarily remove a system

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 20 May 2018 02:55:31 Jon LaBadie wrote:

> I have one system that will be down for an unknown time.
>
> How best to stop amanda from trying, and failing, to
> back up the DLEs of that system.  Is it as simple as
> commenting out the DLEs?  Then if I do need to recover,
> or it comes back on line, uncomment the entries?
>
Thats how I've been doing it for decades.

> Alternatively, is there some disktype entry that says
> basically "never backup this DLE unless forced with
> amadmin".
>
> Jon



Copyright 2018 by Maurice E. Heskett
-- 
Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page 

temporarily remove a system

[Jon LaBadie]

I have one system that will be down for an unknown time.

How best to stop amanda from trying, and failing, to
back up the DLEs of that system.  Is it as simple as
commenting out the DLEs?  Then if I do need to recover,
or it comes back on line, uncomment the entries?

Alternatively, is there some disktype entry that says
basically "never backup this DLE unless forced with
amadmin".

Jon
-- 
Jon H. LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com
 11226 South Shore Rd.  (703) 787-0688 (H)
 Reston, VA  20190  (703) 935-6720 (C)