I have made some changed to amanda.conf. First I have changed disk size to
10GB, then number of Vtapes/slots = 29 and also added runtapes = 6
My amanda.conf
dumpcycle 7
runspercycle 7
tapecycle 29
runtapes 6
dumpuser "amanda"
tpchanger "chg-disk" # a virtual tape changer
tapedev "file:/random/amanda/vtapes/test/slots"
changerfile "/opt/csw/etc/amanda/test/changerfile"
labelstr "TEST-.*"
#label_new_tapes "TEST-%%"
#autolabel "TEST-%%"
tapetype DVD_SIZED_DISK
logdir "/opt/csw/etc/amanda/test"
infofile "/opt/csw/etc/amanda/test/curinfo"
indexdir "/opt/csw/etc/amanda/test/index"
tapelist "/opt/csw/etc/amanda/test/tapelist"
#etimeout 600 # number of seconds per filesystem for estimates.
etimeout 3600 # number of seconds per filesystem for estimates.
#etimeout -600 # total number of seconds for estimates.
# a positive number will be multiplied by the number of filesystems on
# each host; a negative number will be taken as an absolute total time-out.
# The default is 5 minutes per filesystem.
#dtimeout 1800 # number of idle seconds before a dump is aborted.
dtimeout 3600 # number of idle seconds before a dump is aborted.
ctimeout 30 # maximum number of seconds that amcheck waits
# for each client host
holdingdisk hd1 {
directory "/another drive/amanda/amandahold/test"
}
define dumptype comp-tar {
program "GNUTAR"
compress fast
index yes
record yes # Important! avoid interfering with production runs
}
define tapetype DVD_SIZED_DISK {
filemark 1 KB
length 10240 MB
}
I am still confused about spanning because
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Split_Dumps_Across_Tapes mentions that
spanning is automatically enabled in Vtapes. Now is that for specific version
that means or all versions and is there any command to verify if it is enabled
or not? Copying the relevent portion from wiki below.
Disk Backups (Vtapes)
For vtapes, spanning is automatically enabled, as the VFS device supports LEOM.
You can add a part_size if you'd like to split dumps into smaller parts;
otherwise, Amanda will just fill each vtape with a single part before moving on
to the next vtape.
Thanks for continuing to help guys. Appreciate it and it is wonderful to see
how much deep knowledge people have about backups and sharing it happily. And,
I do understand there has to be offsite storage as I know pipes can burst and
it has happened before. These things I plan to consider once I am confortable
with setup. :)
Can anyone advise on spanning ? how to do it in Vtapes?
Thanks
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