Thank you for the answer and sorry for the delay in response. I think that
it is better if a user does not think about number of vtapes like in Cobian
Backup. However, I've configured several thousands of vtapes.
Also I used some advice from amanda-changers man page and defined the
changer:
define changer vtapes-auto {
tpchanger "chg-disk:/mnt/amanda-backup/1c-backup/vtapes"
property "num-slot" "11000"
property "auto-create-slot" "yes"
}
Though I thought amanda would create slots as needed, it created them all
at once.
If there won't be any new advice and improvements, I think the problem can
be considered as closed.
Thank you.
Best Regards,
Artem Konvalyuk
2014-06-11 18:09 GMT+04:00 Jean-Louis Martineau <[email protected]>:
> On 06/11/2014 09:53 AM, Artem Konvalyuk wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone!
>>
>> I'm going to backup some data and store it for many years. The dumpcycle
>> will be 1 week with 5 runs per cycle. Amanda requires positive tapecycle.
>> But I don't really know how long the data will be stored. What is the best
>> way to resolve this problem? I thought about setting tapecycle something
>> like 20000, but this isn't the best solution.
>>
>
> Why not?
> You can also mark them as not reusable with 'amadmin CONFIG no-reuse LABEL'
>
>
>
>> Also I'm planning to use vtapes. I don't know how many slots and vtapes
>> will be necessary in future. So is it possible to automate slots and vtapes
>> creation and labeling?
>>
>> As far as I know it is possible to use autolabel directive for labeling.
>> But does it create new slots?
>>
> man amanda-changers
>
> Jean-Louis
>
>
