On Thu, 2018-05-03 at 18:47 +0100, J Martin Rushton wrote:
> At work I run something like the enclosed /etc/cron.daily/disk_report on
> all nodes (except the diskless ones). It means that every day I have a
> simple configuration report tied into the backups. OK, I'm not using
> Amanda at work, b
On 03/05/18 18:07, Alan Hodgson wrote:
>
> Restores are effectively manual. There is no fire-and-forget bare-metal
> restore process. You need to prep the filesystems and then restore them
> one-by-one through Amanda (or from the backup images themselves;
> they're just tarballs with a short he
are differential
> filesystem Sunday night through Thursday night, full filesystem on
> Friday night, and disk image on Saturday night. I need Amanda to
> conform to this schedule. If I ever grow to where I am backing up
> many systems and time and space are critical resources, the
doing and how to accommodate Amanda, and not about how to force
Amanda to accommodate my limited understanding, but that is the position where
I find myself right now.
I know Amanda is very good at managing backups to optimize both the time and
space necessary to execute a large backup s
