Re: DLE splitting

Hi,

> My GenesAmandaHelper does not do anything to the vtape, all it does is 
> run amanda as a child so it knows when amanda is done. at which point it 
> does its thing copyiing the now uptodate indices and configs to that 
> same vtape amanda just made. so they are valid for the vtape just 
> remade, as opposed to always being a day out of date.
>
> No one else has publicly discussed how they've handled that so I have no 
> clue what others are doing, if anything to prevent a days indexes loss 
> if the drive or the amandatapes drive pukes and you have to recover to 
> bare metal. I also delete from the index database I keep, those files 

At the end of each dump, I rsync index and all to another machine, I
also send that info to me by mail (and my mail is automatically
replicated in at least 3 places). The reason being the one you
mentioned: loss of main Amanda index disk.

Olivier


> that represent a vtape that has been re-used. So I have a duplicate of 
> amandas index stuff that takes up a few gigabytes on the main drive in 
> addition to a backup copy on the vtape. Belt and suspenders approach.
> Recovering the latest indice and putting it where amanda keeps them, 
> enables access to the whole /amandatapes drive in one swell foop.
>
> Copyright 2019 by Maurice E. Heskett
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

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