06-16-2012
How to Keep your core System and personal Data safe while updating to latest distro?
Hi everyone,
Almost everything is in the title!
Which partitions do you keep?
Which partitions do you reformat, while doing a clean install?
Personaly, I never format /var and /home partitions when I update to latest linux distribution.
It has been working quite ok up to now, but I was wondering what are the latest best practices on this issue?
Thanks for your comments and advice and keep up the good work!
Cheers,
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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT
amstatus
AMSTATUS(8) System Manager's Manual AMSTATUS(8)
NAME
amstatus - display the state of an Amanda run
SYNOPSIS
amstatus [--config] config [--file amdumpfile ] [--summary] [--dumping] [--waitdumping] [--waittaper] [--dumpingtape] [--writingtape]
[--finished] [--failed] [--estimate] [--gestimate] [--stats]
DESCRIPTION
Amstatus gives the current state of the Amanda run specified by the config configuration. It may also be used after a run to summarize the
results.
See the amanda(8) man page for more details about Amanda.
OPTIONS
All options may be abbreviated to the shortest non-ambiguous sub-string. If no options are given, everything is displayed.
[--config] config
Specify the Amanda configuration you want to display the state for.
--file amdumpfile
Specify an alternate file instead of the amdump file.
--summary
Display a summary of the state of the run.
--dumping
Display all partitions that are dumping.
--waitdumping|wdumping
Display all partitions that are waiting to be dumped.
--waittaper|wtaper
Display all partitions dumped that are waiting to be written to tape.
--dumpingtape|dtape
Display all partitions that are dumping directly to tape.
--writingtape|wtape
Display all partitions that are writing to tape.
--finished
Display all partitions that are dumped and written to tape.
--failed|error
Display all partitions that failed.
--estimate
Display all partitions whose estimate is finished. Works only during the estimate phase.
--gestimate|gettingestimate
Display all partitions whose estimate is not finished. Works only during the estimate phase.
--stats|statistics
Display statistics about active-time of taper and dumpers.
SEE ALSO
amanda(8), amcheck(8), amdump(8), amrestore(8), amadmin(8)
AMSTATUS(8)