Bort, Paul wrote:
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>>Also, I currently am using a 7 tape changer (which I think I
>>have mtx
>>talking to nicely but with some small eccentricities). I currently
>>have it setup as follows:
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>>dumpcycle 1 week
>>runspercycle 6
>>tapecycle 7 tapes
>>runtapes 1 #I'm thinking of upping this to 2 or 3
>>tpchanger "chg-scsi" # not sure about this yet
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>I had to write my own glue, but if you have mtx working, is there some
>reason not to use chg-mtx?
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ummmm...nothing...I don't think....I just need to look at them (gotta
see the diff between chg-mtx and chg-zd-mtx). The only ones I've really
seen mentioned are chg-scsi, chg-multi and chg-manual.
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>>tapedev "/dev/nst0"
>>rawtapedev "/dev/null"
>>changerdev "/dev/sg0"
>>tapetype EXB-EZ17
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>>where EXB-EZ17 is defined by:
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>>define tapetype EXB-EZ17 {
>> comment "just produced by tapetype program"
>> length 18600 mbytes
>> filemark 623 kbytes
>> speed 2137 kps
>>}
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>>The current plan is to set up the backups to run 1 full per week with
>>incrementals (yes, I know amanda does her own thing). There are
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>This doesn't make any sense, or is incomplete. Are you forcing fulls and
>incrementals with multiple configurations, amadmin force, or just letting
>AMANDA pick the backup levels as she is wont to do? It really makes sense to
>trust AMANDA if at all possible.
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I plan to trust AMANDA...just want to make sure I get at least 1 full
per week.
=G=
