Hi Everybody:
I included a new machine into my amanda backup set. The new machines is
mac Os X server 10.1.2 and it is serving to macos 9 machines. I need to
back up video and audio files and their sizes are about 30 Gb but I can
not use compression because the audio files don't compress very well. I
am using dds 3 tapes with a hp 24X6 hp autoloader. I had the problem
before with files bigger than one tape but I fixed the problem splitting
the image to back up but this time I can not do it because it is one
folder with large files inside so I want to know if it is possible now
with amanda to make backups like that or if I have to do something else to
get to back up large partitions.
This is my configuration
inparallel 4 #mimum dumpers that will run in parallel
netusage 600 Kbps # maximum net bandwidth for Amanda, in KB per sec
dumpcycle 4 weeks # the number of days in the normal dump cycle
runspercycle 28 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days
# (4 weeks * 7 amdump runs per week -- just
weekdays)
tapecycle 60 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation
# 4 weeks (dumpcycle) times 7 tapes per week (every
# day) plus a few to handle errors that
# need amflush and so we do not overwrite the full
# backups performed at the beginning of the
previous
# cycle
### ### ###
# WARNING: don't use `inf' for tapecycle, it's broken!
### ### ###
bumpsize 20 Mb # minimum savings (threshold) to bump level 1 -> 2
bumpdays 1 # minimum days at each level
bumpmult 4 # threshold = bumpsize * bumpmult^(level-1)
etimeout 6000 # number of seconds per filesystem for estimates.
#etimeout -600 # total number of seconds for estimates.
# a positive number will be multiplied by the number of filesystems on
# each host; a negative number will be taken as an absolute total time-out.
# The default is 5 minutes per filesystem.
:
runtapes 2 # number of tapes to be used in a single run of
amdump
# we use two tapes for single run on a
tapechanger with 5 tapes and one cleaner tape.
tpchanger "chg-zd-mtx" # the tape-changer glue script
# Even though tapedev is ignored since we use
# tpchanger, we keep this in case we need to revert
# to no changing.
tapedev "/dev/nst0" # the no-rewind tape device to be used
rawtapedev "/dev/null" # the raw device to be used (ftape only)
#changerstatus "/usr/local/etc/amanda/miro_daily/changer-status"
changerfile "/usr/local/etc/amanda/miro_daily/changer"
changerdev "/dev/sga"
tapetype DDS3
holdingdisk hd1 {
comment "main holding disk"
directory "/amanda_holding-2" # where the holding disk is
use -10 Mb # how much space can we use on it
# a negative value mean:
# use all space except that value
chunksize 2000 Mb # size of chunk if you want big dump to be
define tapetype DDS3 {
comment "DDS3 HP Surestore DAT 24"
length 12288 mbytes
filemark 0 kbytes
speed 1024 kbytes
}
# These are what global will set by default.
auth bsd
comprate 0.5, 0.5
compress client best
index yes
kencrypt no
maxdumps 1
priority medium
program "GNUTAR"
record yes
# starttime no delay
strategy standard
I am using gnutar to make the backup. When I tried to split to test I had
a problem because the file names are not standard unix names so when put
the entry on disklist I got an error like that
machinename /Volumes/Volumesname /foldername/Audio:Video Pull
nocomp_high
error : "/usr/local/sbin/amcheck miro_daily
"/usr/local/etc/amanda/miro_daily/disklist", line 79: undefined dumptype `
PULL
amcheck: could not load disklist /usr/local/etc/amanda/miro_daily/disklist
so I don't know if I can use names like that on the disklist.
if somebody can help me. I really appreciate.
thanks a lot
--
Sandra P. Panesso
tomandandy
(212) 431 3535
