--On Friday, October 04, 2002 18:05:59 +0200 Marcus Huedepohl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> greetings, > > as i am finished with testing amanda, i wish to put it in production now. > there are 3 questions i couldn't answer by searching the archives: > 1. how do i add tapes to the tape cycle? Increase tapecycle and label new tapes. Amanda will always take a new tape if available, so if you like having your tapes in numerical order you need to do this the day you would be overwriting your first tape. > 2. how do i rename an amanda configuration? let's say from TestSet to > DailySet1? Depends on what you are trying to do. You could just cd ~backupuser and mv TestSet DailySet1 and edit your crontab to use DailySet1, but that probably isn't what you want. You would also need to edit your amanda.conf to replace paths containing TestSet with DailySet1. The only remaining problem is your existing tapes. If they are currently labeled TestSet00 there is no way I can think of to replace the label with DailySet100. You could modify your labelstring to match anything with a trailing number and start feeding it tapes labeled with your new string, and then when it finally cycles back to your old tapes relabel them. If you currently run more than one config I wouldn't recommend this as you would be in danger of overwriting another config's tape. You could also just create the DailySet1 directory, make a copy of your disklist and amanda.conf, update the paths and labelstr in the new config, label tapes for it, and just start running the new config instead of the old one. Then you would have the old backups to restore from if you need them. Later on you could relabel the old tapes and add them to your new config. > 3. why does amdump refuse to mail the backup reports to me, when i put this > line in amanda.conf (remove CR/LF to get one line): > > columnspec > >"HostName=1:-1,Disk=1:-1,Level=1:-1,OrigKB=1:-1,OutKB=1:-1,Compress=1:-1,DumpTime=1:-1,DumpRate=1:-1,TapeTime=1:-1,TapeRate=1:-1" > > i think, this should give me 10 columns, each with one space on the left and > the width dynamically resized to fit the largest entry. I've never used the negative entries, but assuming that they normally work I would take a wild guess that it might be the 'Level' column, since that is always 1 character wide. Since you only need to specify the columns you want to change from defaults, try just modifying one column first, see how that runs, then add one more, etc., till you get it like you want or find what breaks it. > the amanda-version in use is 2.4.2p2 (debian-packages). > > thanks Frank -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
