Hi all,

Thanks for the help so far. This has saved me a lot of time.

I have a fair amount of data I'm looking to copy (potentially ~30TB) - that is 
data from multiple file-servers to multiple tapes and without LEOM. Am I 
correct in saying this is the implication(?) - Amanda will get so far through 
the disklist then realize it can't fit a DLE onto a tape then load the next 
[correctly labeled] tape?


I will be loading 8 LTO6  tapes into the tape changer (currently max capacity). 
I only have this one tape changer at my disposal.

I'm looking to do two things with the same data:

1) perform a one-off archive and remove the tapes for safe storage off-site
2) load a new set of tapes and use amanda as a near-line storage solution 
(quick backup/restore over network)

Both of these can be achieved with the identical config I think? I just need to 
specify the exact days for 1) then remove the tapes... before doing so, will i 
need to use amadmin to say do not re-use these tapes? (incase I retrieve from 
safe storage to do a restore from)

Does this sound sensible?

dumpcycle 1 week
runspercycle 5
tapecycle 8         ?

cronjob to invoke amdump once sun-thur inclusive at night ... any new DLE 
configured fri, meaning full backup of new DLE performed sunday


thanks
David

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David Simpson - Computing Support Officer
IBME - Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Old Road Campus Research Building
Oxford, OX3 7DQ
Tel: 01865 617697 ext: 17697

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