Amanda backup routine

[Gerald Combs]

On 8 Jan 2003, Brad Crotchett wrote:

> Would it be possible to configure amanda to do the following:?
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> Run a full backup, or at least fully backup the directories that change
> daily on Server1
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> Then restore the backup from Server1 to Server2 each night?

It should be possible to do this with Amanda.  You could use amrestore to
read the backup for server1, and feed the output to tar/restore on
server2.  AFAIK, amrestore doesn't care what Amanda configuration name
you're using so that shouldn't be an issue.

How much bandwidth is available between server1 and server2?  Rsync might
be a better solution:

    http://rsync.samba.org/

With rsync there would be fewer moving parts (literally!), and you could
sync more than once a day.

> This way if server1 crashes, server2 can come online and not be more
> than 24 hours outdated with respect to server1.  I am just wondering how
> to tell amanda to use the tape from one amanda config to be used in the
> restore of another amanda config.  I am sure amanda's db is going to say
> that this is the wrong tape.  Maybe I can use a flag that forces amanda
> to use the specified tape?  Or maybe there is a way to do this with one
> amanda config?
> 
> Any thoughts or comments are appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brad
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