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Suppose I have a preconfigured AMANDA server running automated network backups of directories specified in my disklists file. Normally, AMANDA will backup targets disks to /dumps/amanda.

Is there any single command or method to perform a manual, one-time, full backup dump to another destination drive?

I ask since I'm investigating the possibility of introducing rotating external hard-drive backups for offsite storage and I want to leverage our existing backup strategies wherever possible. Ideally, a full backup restore should be achievable from only any one of these offsite backup discs.

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Yes. From the amadmin man page:

force [ hostname [ disks ]* ]+
           Force the disks on hostname to do a full (level 0) backup during the next Amanda run.

So, to make Amanda do a full dump of one specific host, use:

 amadmin DailySet1 force myonehost

To make Amanda do a full dump of everything, use;

  amadmin DailySet1 force

To then tell Amanda to run the backup now, just do:

amdump DailySet1 myonehost

You may also want to look at the man pages for the amvault command.

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