What I did here is not the second drive with the changer at all -- I change
that tape by hand twice a week, and use it to generate an archival level-0
backup (stored in the tape safe) for long-term storage. I can use the
tapes in the changer (on drive 1) to restore any file system to any day in
The amcheck does not check tape space, only that there is a labelled tape.
It should know the amount of tape space available based on the tapetype
configured.
When the dump actually happens, amanda will first reduce full backups to
incremental backups if there is too much data for the tape size,
To those who have been waiting on my Oracle backup perl script,
I just wanted to let you know I haven't forgotten about you.
My supervisor insisted on bringing our legal department into
the loop since the script was created on Sprint's dime. I'm
pushing to get this declared freely distributable
I'm putting the finishing touches this week on a perl script
that handles Oracle database hot backups (to keep the database
up and running 24/7). It's very much like the tcl script John
Jackson wrote, but uses the Expect perl module to interact with
the database.
The script essentially backs up
