On Mar 6, 2015, at 4:43 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 03/06/2015 04:59 PM, Debra S Baddorf wrote: >> I’ve run AMVAULT on machine A and copied my dumps to vtapes. >> I’ve scp’ed the vtapes to machine B, along with the >> tapelist entries and the log.<datestamp>.0 files >> >> AMVAULT on machine B insists that there are “no disks to vault”. >> Can anybody think of anything I’m missing? > > Do 'amadmin CONF find' list the dump? > Do the tapelist and log are at the right place > $ amgetconf CONF tapelist > $ amgetconf CONF logdir > amadmin daily find found the 4 of them that I explicitly tried, one by one $ amgetconf daily tapelist /usr/local/etc/amanda/logs/daily/tapelist bash-4.1$ grep VTAPE /usr/local/etc/amanda/logs/daily/tapelist 20150306143401 VTAPE-4 no-reuse BLOCKSIZE:512 20150306142427 VTAPE-3 no-reuse BLOCKSIZE:512 20150305163021 VTAPE-1 no-reuse BLOCKSIZE:512 0 VTAPE-2 reuse BLOCKSIZE:512 Yes, I did amgetconf and then cut & pasted the result. The VTAPEs are in that file. Ditto for the logdir — amgetconf, cut & pasted and grepped for VTAPE in those files. Deb >> >> I can grep through the log.<datestamp>.0 files on machine B and find >> the DLEs and >> the names of the Vtapes. My reverse AMVAULT command looks like this: >> >> amvault --dry-run --src-timestamp 20150208180002 --fulls-only -o >> tpchanger=vtapes-on-spool >> --dst-changer LTO5-Robot --label-template "ad5-%" daily >> >> >> >> >> FWIW, back on machine A the amvault command had the tapes in the DST >> position: >> amvault --src-timestamp 20150208180002 --fulls-only --dst-changer >> vtapes-on-spool >> --label-template "VTAPE-%%%" daily >> >> and the “from” changer was the main one in the configuration. >> >> Deb Baddorf >> Fermilab >> >> >> On Dec 5, 2014, at 8:27 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> It is a lot easier if you can plug the LTO2 tape drive directly on the >>> machine B, that way you can use amvault to copy the dump directly from the >>> LTO2 tapes to the LTO5 tapes. >>> >>> You can do it from both machines: >>> - run amvault on machine A to copy the dump to vtapes >>> - transfer the vtapes to machine B including the >>> -tapelist entries and the >>> -log.<datestamp>.0 files. >>> - run amvault on machine B to copy the dump from vtapes to LTO5. >>> >>> Jean-Louis >>> >>> On 12/04/2014 06:33 PM, Debra S Baddorf wrote: >>>> If I want to copy my backups that are already on LTO2 tapes and move them >>>> onto >>>> LTO5 tapes, is AMVAULT the way to go? >>>> >>>> I will soon get rid of most of my older tape drives and I want to >>>> preserve some of the backups >>>> done on those tapes. Machine A will still have the old tape drive >>>> available for a while. I’d like >>>> to read the backups onto disk on machine A, and then copy them over the >>>> network, >>>> over to machine B, and write them to a newer tape drive on machine B. >>>> >>>> It looks like AMFETCHDUMP will de-compress the files and >>>> try to undo the backups, so I don’t think I want that. Should I use >>>> AMVAULT >>>> on both machine A and machine B? I could tell machine A to read from >>>> the >>>> old tape drive as the secondary media (per terminology in the man page) >>>> and write to “disk” as the “tertiary” media. Then I copy the >>>> files >>>> over to machine B and reverse the process. Will this work? >>>> >>>> >>>> (Machine B isn’t here yet. Also, forgive my up casing the AMANDA words, >>>> but my mac keeps trying to respell everything and my brain won’t cope with >>>> that today. ) >>>> >>>> Deb Baddorf >>>> Fermilab >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> TL;DR : >>>> >>>> I’ve only got a year’s worth of data on LTO2 tape, so this seems worth >>>> doing. I had older yet >>>> SDLT tapes before that, lots of them. Those I won’t try to convert, but >>>> will save the >>>> heroics until someone absolutely requires some old data. Learning a >>>> little about AMVAULT >>>> wouldn’t hurt me either, so this seems like a worthwhile project. >> >
