Hi We have just done exactly this. I setup the rait as a chg-multi with 5 slots I then ran a little script to copy the tape label before running amdump I also setup two other configs one for just using the tape which is used by amcheck and on which just uses the vtapes so we can recover files without having to mount the tapes. I later increase the number of vtapes to 10 so we could run amflush without overwriting the last nights tape by using amodified version of the script below
I hope this helps Please feel free to contact me if you need more details #!/bin/sh VTAPE=file:/var/amanda/vtapes/sir-1/vtape$1 DEV=/dev/rmt/0 AMMT=/usr/local/amanda/sbin/ammt AMDD=/usr/local/amanda/sbin/amdd AMDUMP=/usr/local/amanda/sbin/amdump AMTAPE=/usr/local/amanda/sbin/amtape $AMMT -t $VTAPE rewind $AMMT -t $DEV rewind $AMDD if=$DEV of=$VTAPE bs=32k count=1 2>&1 > /dev/null $AMTAPE sir-1 slot $1 $AMDUMP sir-1 $AMMT -t $DEV offline -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of stan Sent: 29 March 2006 13:58 To: amanda users list Subject: A question about RAIT with mixed vtapes, and physical tapes I'm setting up a new system using RAIT with one vtape, and one physical tape in each RAIT set. I only have room on my disks for 5 vtapes, but I have 25 tapes. I would like to just have the last 5 backup sets (one week) on the vtapes at any one time, but rotate through all 25 physical tapes. Can I do this? How can I label just the physical tapes without overwrite the labels on the vtapes? -- U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote - Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror - New York Times 9/3/1967
