Re: Amanda scripts collection(s)?

This is a great idea.  I used Charles' 2010-vintage createvtapes.sh
myself originally.  With a number of options arguments changing in later
versions of Amanda, many of my old script recipes have since become
obsolete.

While we can look at well-documented shell scripts to see what they do
and how to invoke, I wonder if it might be useful to write up a
man-style page to accompany the most universal of them.

On 2020-12-20 10:14 a.m., Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 20 December 2020 04:47:40 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>
>> Am 18.12.20 um 20:03 schrieb Charles Curley:
>>> Has anyone collected Amanda helper scripts? I see "Stefan G.
>>> Weichinger" <[email protected]> just posted Gene Heskett
>>> <[email protected]>'s helper script on github.
>>> https://github.com/stefangweichinger/amanda-helpers/blob/master/gene
>>> s_helper.sh
>>>
>>> I have my vtape builder script on my blog, and may yet post more.
>>> http://charlescurley.com/blog/tag/amanda.html
>>>
>>> Is anyone collecting these? I did not see anything obvious in a
>>> quick peruse of the wiki.
>>> https://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Main_Page
>> Well, the wiki is maintained by Betsol, I assume ...
> I'm not sure I'd bet on it, Stefan. This bunch of amateurs may not know 
> what a wiki even is.
>
>> My tiny amanda-helpers repo is just a starting point and suggestion,
>> as I mentioned in that other thread.
>>
>> It's kind of an invitation to share and contribute, yes, and with your
>> permission I would like to add your script(s) as well.
> Find attached, the main backup.sh script I wrote the majority of 14 years 
> ago. Make a link to it named flush.sh, it checks to see how it was 
> called and changes its behaviour accordingly.
>
> The idea was to append to an existing tape, just generated by amanda, the 
> database and configuration that generated THIS backup, aiding our 
> ability to do an uptodate, not a day old, bare metal recovery to a new 
> disk, following a bare install to get the rest of the tools needed. It, 
> until a recent perl breakage, has Just Worked here for 14 years now, and 
> I have done that bare metal recovery 3 times following the death of a 
> boot drive,
>
>> We can discuss if all the scripts should be copied there or if a mix
>> of scripts and a link collection also does the trick.
> I too have a list of bash utility scripts, like one to prepare a new 
> disk, out of the bag, with the amanda vtape file structure.  Since 
> backup.sh is only 8k, I'll append that one too. Edit to suit your 
> situation of course. Also attached is gene.conf, rename and edit to fit 
> your install. Call it a template or whatever...
>
>> thanks for the feedback ;-)
>
>
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> Cheers, Gene Heskett