Since others have diverted into providing answers for your tape type, I'll resurrect this question and give some sort of an answer.
Yes, you probably need just one configuration and one group of tapes labelled per 'labelstr'. You create a list of DLEs to make smaller than tarp sized chunks. node /diskname dumpname [spindle Local ] (optional) node /disk2/aDir tar-type-dumpname [...] node /disk2/another tar-type-dumpname [...] node2 /diskname dumpname [spindle Local ] (optional) node2 /disk2/aDir tar-type-dumpname [...] node2 /disk2/another tar-type-dumpname [...] Etc Then, optimally, you create a cron job for each night (or maybe only week nights), something like this: 21 00 * * * amdump myconfig And let Amanda shuffle your DLEs into a similarly sized amount each night. Stop reading here, for the simplest setup. ------------------- If perchance the manager of nodeN insists on checking his dumpdates log on the same day each week, you CAN force nodeN with another cron entry & script: "If Wednesday then amadmin myconfig force nodeN * " Or perhaps only amadmin myconfig force nodeN /usr Things like that. It forces Amanda to do a level 0 THAT day, on whatever DLEs you do it for. It messes up Amanda's balancing, but if you have a lot of DLEs it'll even out somewhat. You also CAN do a force on all DLEs ( * * ) on the day that you want a whole set of level 0's. But that really messes up the balancing & isn't the best idea. ----------------- I personally DO run a second configuration (archive) and a second set of tapes (same tape drive) so that I can get an archive tape. I set it "no record" so it doesn't change the dumpdates, and so it doesn't stop other level 0's from being done in the normal configuration . I do a "force" on all my DLEs and run it once a month. These tapes go offsite, so I want my daily configuration to have its own set of level 0's. Level 0's at least once a week (my dumpcycle) but then I keep 5-6 weeks of tapes before I recycle and start overwriting those level 0's. Deb On Jan 16, 2014, at 5:01 PM, "Michael Stauffer" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Thanks for the reply. I don't have multiple configurations, I'm just trying to figure out how to set things up. So it sounds like I can have a single configuration that uses the same group of tapes as defined by 'labelstr', and I use the DLE lists to break things up into manageable chunks. Then with amdump, I can specify the individual DLE's to be dumped? -M On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On 01/09/2014 01:47 PM, Michael Stauffer wrote: Hi, I'm setting up amanda 3.3.4. Regarding 'labelstr' in amanda.conf: The documentation says: "If multiple configurations are run from the same tape server host, it is helpful to set their labels to different strings (for example, "DAILY[0-9][0-9]*" vs. "ARCHIVE[0-9][0-9]*") to avoid overwriting each other's tapes." Does this mean that if I have multiple configurations in order to break up a large 30TB data set into managable chunks, each configuration will have to have a particular set of tapes assigned to it? That seems very awkward if so. yes Why do you have multiple configurations? You should do it with one configuration and multiple dle. Jean-Louis
