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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm looking into using the coda-backup system installed from a .deb on Debian, and I successfully ran the backup.sh script after some modifications (i.e., changed all the e-mail addresses so it wasn't sending anyone other than myself e-mail, and fixed the hardcoded /vice/db/dumplist and /backup arguments to the 'backup' command and removed its attempt to backup to tape). Also, I renamed those two files to be 'backup-coda' and 'backup-coda.sh'. Wouldn't that be a better naming convention (or something similar), to indicate what the backup executable and shell script are for? I noticed that the (renamed) backup-coda command did not like to use /backup on the SCM to backup the /vicepa (also using the / mount point) volume. It complained that they were both using the same device and stopped the backup. So I moved the "backup"s directories to /var/backups/coda/backups[1], modified the vicetab file and tried again. ~ This time it worked. Amanda is already backing up / and /var, so I assume I can just leave the backed up volume files in /var/backups/coda and let Amanda back them up like normal. Then every weekend, clear out all coda backups that are less than today's date and run the coda backup to do a full dump. This will probably eat more and more data on the tapes, because instead of just incremental volume dumps being backed up on weekdays, it will be the initial full dump from the previous weekend plus all incremental dumps up to this point in the week. Is there a better way to do this? I've seen the amanda .deb's after dpkg-buildpackage'ing coda CVS. Do I just install those? Is there documentation on how to setup Amanda to directly backup the coda volumes without having to run the backup-coda.sh script? Thanks. - -- Jason A. Pattie pattieja_at_xperienceinc.com Xperience, Inc. (http://www.xperienceinc.com) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Debian - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAOmMIuYsUrHkpYtARAva7AJ93+iexhawV5anoIVWWuWsFbFkDJgCfacYp ernezPFXvkV0Zbckgsydgug= =1Sdu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.Received on 2004-02-23 15:32:41