On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 09:10:05AM +0200, Matthias Teege wrote: > How many tapes do you use for "vaulting" and how do you rotate the > tapes? Does the amvault job using the same settings as the daily job > to vtapes?
It follows the storage profile. So you tell it the retention levels and rejects 'in use' tapes. Other than that remember that the tapecycle is only for planning and defaulting purposes, you can always use more 'tapes' than specified. > I'm doing dailys to vtapes which are smaller as my "real" tapes. If > I understand amvault correctly I can write more then one dump to tape > with something like 'amvault --src-timestamp "201707..." --dst-changer > vaulting-tape daily' but have to rotate the tapes "by hand". Yes, the only issue is to find an adequate filter for amvault since each invocation starts a new tape (the usual amanda "never append to a tape" rule). And anyway the amvault interface is still in flux so maybe one day there will be something like the file list of cpio (I want to vault this, this and this in one vaulting run) -- Lorenzo Marcantonio
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