Am 26.02.2014 19:03, schrieb Markus Iturriaga Woelfel:
> 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.

Sometimes it already helps to get some kind of template ... but you can
judge that better than me ... ;-)

>> 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?

Yep. I already have such a setup on one of my servers ... for testing this.

>> 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).

Good to hear ... I didn't understand that in the first place.

> 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.

Yes. Some kind of helper-script needed here. Plus cronjobs etc.
I already have some basic ideas and will try to set that up asap.


Greets, Stefan

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