Dear sir,
Thanks. My Redhat 7.0 should use the default GNU. It is a good idea to use
the real host name instead of the localhost.
In my amanda.conf file, I use
dumpcycle 1 days # the number of days in the normal dump cycle
runspercycle 1 days # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days
tapecycle 1 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation
I use the cront job * 3 * * * /usr/sbin/amdump DailySet1
to do the backup. I am planning to label seven tapes with the same name
DailySet100. Then each day, I will replace it with another tape. Is this a
practical one? Or should I set
dumpcycle 7 days
runspercycle 1 days
tapecycle 7 tapes
Which one is better?
At the moment, I just use one tape and I am testing the restore function:
amrestore /dev/st0 localhost '/home$'
But, I get the following which runs for more than several hours even though
I only have about 20 Mb in /home
amrestore: 5214: skipping start of tape: date 20001213 label DailySet100
amrestore: 5215: skipping localhost._etc.20001213.1
amrestore: 5216: restoring localhost._home.20001213.1
amrestore: 5217: skipping start of tape: date 20001213 label DailySet100
amrestore: 5218: skipping localhost._etc.20001213.1
amrestore: 5219: restoring localhost._home.20001213.1
Is there anything wrong?
Yours,
Richard Ao
Newsbook Limited
----- Original Message -----
From: "John R. Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "amanda-users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: about setting up the disklist.conf
> > In my disklist.conf, I have set up the following:
> >
> >localhost /etc comp-root-tar
> >localhost /home comp-root-tar
> >202.85.165.88 /home comp-root-tar=20
>
> I recommend you put a real host name in there instead of "localhost".
> If you ever need to move to a new server, that name will be wrong.
>
> > In the 202.85.165.88 /home directory, I have set up different users =
> >who only themselves can read their directories. So, I have put the =
> >operator into the root group. Is these then okay for the operator in the
=
> >client to backup the directoires? ...
>
> If you are using GNU tar to do backups, Amanda runs it as root so you do
> not need to make any special arrangements. If you are using a system
> dump program, you'll need to put the raw disk devices in a group the
> Amanda user (e.g. "operator") is a member of. In either case, you do
> not need to do anything special to /home or anything inside it.
>
> >Richard Ao
>
> John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> P.S. Please turn off "send HTML" in your mailer. It's just a waste
> of bandwidth.
