Amanda Amanda@Work.Group/DOS, Administrator'S Manual

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152 Administering Amanda@Work.Group/DOS
Emergency Lists
Amanda can use an emergency list to notify a group of people about a new
message. Amanda notifies the first person of the new message first, then
after a time, notifies the second, and so forth until someone listens to the
message. You define the initial time to wait before starting the notification,
and the time interval between notifications.
In the following example, you create three notification records for one
mailbox. Each record contains a different telephone number to call (one for
each of the three people who are to be notified).
The records are configured this way:
This configuration causes Amanda to execute record 1 immediately and at
five-minute intervals. After 15 minutes, if the message is not picked up, she
starts using record 2 every five minutes (in conjunction with record 1). After
30 minutes, Amanda executes record 3. All three records continue every 5
minutes until the message is picked up.
For Max Times, this example uses 0 so that notification only stops when
someone receives the message. Under normal circumstances, The Amanda
Company does not recommend using 0.
1
The top row lists the name of the field in Amanda Administrator.
2
The second row lists the name of the field for the standalone sys-
tem.
After Waiting
1
Notify After
2
Retry Every
Continue Every
For
Max Times
Record 1 0 5 0
Record 2 15 5 0
Record 3 30 5 0