Hi Jon, thanks for the reply. On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 16:20, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > You have 11 machines, the tape server and 10 clients. Say on average each > has 4 file systems. You would then have 44 items (host/filesystem) to backup. > These would each be listed in a file called "disklist".
So where, if at all, does this "disklist" file get referenced in the amanda.conf? And where should it live? > Backups, called dumps regardless of the backup program (dump or tar) are > performed at "levels". A full dump (everything on a disklist entry) is a > level 0 (zero). Others levels are known as incrementals, level 1 means > everything changed since the last level 0. Level 2 dumps are everything > changed since the last level 1. Gotcha -- that all makes sense. But in what instance would one want to do a level 2 as opposed to just a level 1? > All this info is collected in a file called amanda.conf. Here's where I'm stuck now. As I'm just beginning, my test amanda.conf configuration is as follows: tpchanger "chg-manual" # This will hopefully change after testing tapedev "/dev/sg0" tapetype DAT changerfile "/etc/amanda/DailySet1/changer.conf" And here's my changer.conf: number_configs 1 eject 0 # Tapedrives need an eject command sleep 90 # Seconds to wait until the tape gets ready cleanmax 100 # How many times could a cleaning tape get used changerdev /dev/sg0 # # Next comes the data for drive 0 # config 0 drivenum 0 dev /dev/nst0 # dev /dev/ns0 scsitapedev /dev/sg0 startuse 0 # The slots associated with the drive 0 enduse 7 # statfile /etc/amanda/DailySet1/tape0-slot # The file where the actual slot is stored cleancart 8 # the slot where the cleaningcartridge for drive 0 is located cleanfile /etc/amanda/DailySet1/tape0-clean # The file where the cleanings are recorded usagecount /etc/amanda/DailySet1/totaltime tapestatus /etc/amanda/DailySet1/tapestatus # here will some status infos be stored #labelfile /etc/amanda/DailySet1/labelfile # Use this if you have an barcode reader But when I run 'amcheck -s DailySet1', I get this error: Holding disk /backup/amanda: 12891648 KB disk space available, using 7771648 KB amcheck-server: could not get changer info: badly formed result from changer: "/usr/lib/amanda/chg-manual: number_configs: command not found" I have no idea what that means, but there really is no command called number_configs on this box. I've tried changing tpchanger to chg-scsi and chg-multi (as I really don't know which one I'll want to be using in the future), but haven't had any success with those either. > With this as a starting point, get the source code, and in a directory > called docs are many information documents. An important one is INSTALLATION. > Also see the example amanda.conf file for all its comment remarks. Thanks again, Jon -- you've helped a great deal already. Cheers, -Charlie
