Re: Testing an Amanda installation

Jose M Calhariz <[email protected]> Mon, 26 Apr 2021 04:53:00 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.archivers.amanda.user
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On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 10:22:16AM +0200, Cristian Zoicas wrote:
> 
> Hello All
> 
> I am very new to Amanda and I would like to ask a question about
> the possibility of testing a specific configuration.
> 
> Let's assume that I have enuogh confidence in my Amanda configuration but
> before using it in a production environment I would like to test how the
> backups work. Mainly I would like to do the following:
> 
>    1) To run the backup procedure a numer of times in a row and see/check
>       that the tapes are correctly used and reused.
> 
>    2) That I am able to perform restore operations.
> 
> Is it possibile to do that? I am mainly interested in 1 because so far I
> was not able to do that. The unexpected thing that happens when I
> run the backup task in a row is that Amanda behaves as if it is not
> able to detect the passing of time (probably because it checks the real
> calendaristic time).

Yes is possible to do more than one run per day and do some testing of
your configuration.  You just need some tweeks on amanda.conf from the
one you will use in production.


> 
> I've also tried to make the backup task thinkg that it is running in a
> different day by using libfaketime. No success.

No need for that.

> 
> Thank you.
> Cristian
> 


Kind regards
Jose M Calhariz


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