I'm in the (hopefully) final stages of setting up my new Amanda machine. I want to use a combination of vtapes, and physical tapes in a RAIT. At the moment, I have 10 vtapes set up but I may reduce that to 5. My physical tape is a Ultrim 3, which has a marketing capacity of 400G. I have 1.2T of space to use for vtapes. I want to use 25 physical tapes in rotation.
Based upon some suggestions from [EMAIL PROTECTED], I have modified his script that sets the changer position to a given portion, and then copies the disklabel from the phys. tape to the vtape. Here is what I wound up with for that #!/bin/sh VTAPE=file:/vtapes/DailyDump/vtape$1 DEV=/dev/nst0 AMMT=/opt/amanda/sbin/ammt AMDD=/opt/amanda/sbin/amdd AMDUMP=/opt/amanda/sbin/amdump AMTAPE=/opt/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 DailyDump slot $1 $AMDUMP DailyDump I believe that I need to set up 3 configs for this to work correctly. They are: 1. The primary config (DailyDump) in my case, used for normal backups. 2. A tape only config (tape_only in my case). This will be used for labeling the physical atpes, and for recovering from physical tapes, after the vtape half of the mirror is gone. 3. A disk only (disk_only in my case). Used for recovering from vtapes without having to mount the physical tape. Potentially while a backup is still running. Now, it seems to me that these 3 configs will need to share a good bit of stuff. The amanda.conf's will be different (although I'm using the include directive to bring in many common pieces). I would assume that the disklist could be linked to each config directory. Which leaves (at least) the following or discussion: infofile (I think this should be common) logdir (I'm uncertain of this0. indexdir (this pretty much has to be common. What should I do about tapelist? Also, I'm thinking that dumpcycle , runspercycle , and tapecycle will need to be the same everywhere. a 4, 20, and 25 in my case. Finally, what should I do about changerfile? I'm using chg-multi. Thanks for any advice on this somewhat convoluted setup. -- U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote - Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror - New York Times 9/3/1967
