On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:37:31AM -0500, upengan78 wrote: > 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. > >From the same document:
"In Amanda earlier than Amanda-3.2, this was done with some dumptype parameters. For these versions, see How To:Split Dumps Across Tapes (Amanda-3.1 and earlier)." You said you are using amanda version 2.5.x. Clearly that is earlier than 3.2. -- Jon H. LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com JG Computing 12027 Creekbend Drive (703) 787-0884 Reston, VA 20194 (703) 787-0922 (fax)