Jon LaBadie wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 04:39:29PM -0400, Galen Johnson wrote:
>
>>Which side is right (the wheat or frosted ;-) )? I don't know why I'm
>>having so much trouble with this but I suspect it's information overload.
>>
>>
>
>Frosted!!
>
>A single amdump does all disklist entries to a single tape (unless it
>overflows and is allowed to use more tapes per run -- runtapes param).
>
>When using tar, a disklist entry may be the mount directory of a file system
>(aka partition) or the starting directory of a sub-tree of the file system.
>In the latter case, multiple entries are needed to backup the entire fs.
>
>
I know in advance that the prvious backups were coming close to the
tape's limit so I should probably go ahead and tell it use 2 tapes per
run? Reading Gene's reply (if I'm reading it correctly) would entail
more tapes than the magazine can hold...plus.
>
>
>>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:
>>
>>dumpcycle 1 week
>>runspercycle 6
>>tapecycle 7 tapes
>>
>>
>
>Absolute barest minimum for your tapecycle. Not recommended.
>
>Later you say you are rotating three magazines of seven tapes each.
>In that case your tapecycle could be 21.
>
>
I thought so but the exmaple made me think otherwise.
>
>
>>runtapes 1 #I'm thinking of upping this to 2 or 3
>>
>>
>
>Not with tapecycle 7!
>
>
>
>>tpchanger "chg-scsi" # not sure about this yet
>>
>>
>
>Maybe chg-mtx as it seems to be working?
>
>
I'm looking into it as I write this...
>
>
>>tapedev "/dev/nst0"
>>rawtapedev "/dev/null"
>>changerdev "/dev/sg0"
>>tapetype EXB-EZ17
>>
>>where EXB-EZ17 is defined by:
>>
>>define tapetype EXB-EZ17 {
>> comment "just produced by tapetype program"
>>
>>
>
>You are free, and expected, to edit the comment
>to something more meaningful and informative :)
>
>
Just haven't done it yet.
>
>
>> length 18600 mbytes
>> filemark 623 kbytes
>> speed 2137 kps
>>}
>>
>>
>>[ snip ] ... . I followed Gene's advice and made
>>myself a build script (since I found myself building and rebuilding as I
>>came across new material). It's as follows:
>>
>>#!/bin/sh
>># Since I'm always forgetting to build it as the amanda user
>>if [ `whoami` != 'amanda' ]; then
>> echo
>> echo "WARNING!!!!"
>> echo "AMANDA needs to be configured and built by the amanda user,"
>> echo "but must be installed by root."
>> echo
>> exit 1
>>fi
>>make clean
>>
>>
>
>If doing a new configure, a make clean does not, IIRC, clean out the previous
>configure's cache. Do a make "distclean" instead.
>
>
>
>>rm -f config.status config.cache
>>
>>
>
>Oh, maybe this would be sufficient instead of the distclean. I haven't tried it.
>Nevermind.
>
>
It seemed to work in the 3 attempts to build I did (just trying to get
it the way I wanted). Still debating putting the libexec files under
/usr/libexec/amanda to be consistant with my OS.
>
>
>>./configure --prefix=/home/amanda \
>>
>>
>
>I have some environment params that need to be set. These can be done
>in front of the "./configure" like:
>
>CC=/usr/local/bin/gcc \
>LDFLAGS=... \
>CFLAGS=... \
>./configure ... \
>
>Don't know if you will need them or not, but it makes my
>redo of a configure easier. I don't have to remember to
>set and export them if they are not already done in amanda
>user's environment.
>
hmmm....may mod my script...
>
>
>
>> --libdir=/usr/local/lib/amanda \
>> --mandir=/usr/local/man \
>> --with-user=amanda \
>> --with-group=disk \
>> --with-config=daily \
>> --with-configdir=/home/amanda/config \
>> --with-gnutar=/home/amanda/bin/tar \
>> --with-gnutar-listdir=/home/amanda/var \
>> --with-changer-device=/dev/sg0 \
>> --with-tape-device=/dev/nst0 \
>> --with-amandahosts \
>> --with-gnu-ld \
>> --with-db=db \
>> --with-debugging=/tmp/amanda-dbg
>>
>># Create directories that aren't created by make
>>if [ ! -d /home/amanda/var ]; then
>> mkdir /home/amanda/var
>>fi
>>
>>if [ ! -d /home/amanda/config ]; then
>> mkdir /home/amanda/config
>>fi
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>Would that we were all so organized :)
>
>
>
Gene H inspired this script...
=G=
