On 2008-06-23 13:43, Johan Booysen wrote:
Is there anyone who is actually using chg-manual for their Amanda setup, who would be willing to give me an example of their config files, such as amanda.conf and changer.conf (changerfile parameter)?
Can't help with chg-manual, but... I avoid the use of chg-manual by having a large holdingdisk (4 disks 500GB each in raid5). I set "maxdumpsize" to a value large enough to dump what is needed in the run (800 Gbyte currently). For my archive run (full dumps only on weekends), I have two LTO2 tapedrives (using chg-multi to emulate a changer with 2 tapes), but the total backup volume now spans 5 tapes. The first two tapes are written during the normal dump during the weekend. On monday morning I insert the next two tapes, and run amflush. Somewhere early afternoon, I get a mail from amanda saying still some files are left on holdingdisk, so I insert the next tape and run amflush once again for last bits. Works good enough for me. And does not need manual intervention DURING a backup, like chg-manual does. I prefer having 2 tapedrives, instead of one (usually expensive) changer. That way i'm not completely blocked when a tapedrive needs repair. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology Services Tel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *********************************************************************** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, ^^, * * F6, quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * * init 0, kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ... * * ... "Are you sure?" ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***********************************************************************