Stefan, > Maybe someday you share your script? ;-)
If I ever find the time to clean up the script, I'll be happy to share it. Not sure how useful it'd be to others because it's specific to our situation. > > For my current job I need/should use external hdds as target media, so I > wonder if should simply define a separate changer "vault" in parallel, > with vtapes on these disks. > That's what we did with our vault setup. We have two changers, one is a "chg-disk:VTAPEROOT" type and one is a "chg-robot". In your case, they'd probably both be chg-disk? > A script could check: if week-number is even, make sure to mount disk2 > ... if week-number is not even, mount disk1 ... > > disk1 contains vtapes 1-10 ... (as example), disk2 contains vtapes 11-20 > ... then amvault stuff from config daily to changer vault ... > > Would that work? Does anyone do it like that? > > Additional question (yes, I am amvault-newbie): how to get back stuff > from these vault-tapes? Basically, this isn't too different from our setup. You can restore from the vault tapes (or vtapes in your case) just like you would from your main vtapes. They show up in normal amadmin find operations and show you the information of the original dump (not the date you "vaulted" the backup). This means the same DLE and dump date/level will show up more than once in your amadmin find, e.g.: 2014-01-29 10:55:57 HOST.eecs.utk.edu /a/b/c 0 EECS-05 62 1/1 OK 2014-01-29 10:55:57 HOST.eecs.utk.edu /a/b/c 0 EECS-VAULT-058 78 1/1 OK You can restore from the vaulted "tapes" the same as you could from your other vtapes (using amrecover, amfetchdump, or amrestore, or even manually). I've never used removable drives for backups, so you may need to worry about making them available in the right order, etc. when restoring. Markus --- Markus A. Iturriaga Woelfel, IT Administrator Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Tennessee Min H. Kao Building, Suite 424 / 1520 Middle Drive Knoxville, TN 37996-2250 [email protected] / (865) 974-3837 http://twitter.com/UTKEECSIT
