On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 06:03:22PM +0000, Ochressandro Rettinger wrote:
>
> I've got Amanda running in the normal manner, with a 10 day
> tape cycle, 7 day dump cycle, and 5 runspercycle, letting Amanda handle when
> to do fulls and incrementals. My boss wants to do separate monthly full
> backups on top of that. I found the FAQ answer that talks about using a
> completely separate set of tapes and setting "record no", but I was wondering
> what that actually does? Does it tell the *client* not to record something,
> or the server? And what is it not recording, at that point?
>
> Does recovering data from one of those tapes work just like
> recovering from a regular tape, only using the name of the new config with
> 'amrecover'?
>
Assuming you are using tar for backups, one place amanda records
information is in ~amandabackup/amandates. Here is a simple one
from one of my systems just 2 DLEs, Boot (/boot) and Root (/).
Boot 0 1481789532
Boot 1 1481874097
Root 0 1481790412
Root 1 1481878097
Root 2 1481703117
It tracks the diskname, dumplevel, and time last done (unix epoch time).
Unfortunately, this is not kept separately for each amanda config.
Thus, if you have your Archive config set to record it will record
level 0 dumps in the file and your daily config will think that was
the last time a level 0 dump was done in the daily config.
Recovery does not use these data so you will not cause any problems
by having a second, non-recording, full-dump only config.
Jon
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