I've just acquired and set up a new Overland T48 with two LTO7 tape drives.
I already have an Overland T24 with one LTO6 tape drive that I've been using
for a few years.
I plan on transitioning our large data to the LTO7 and thought I might keep the basic administrative
backups on the LTO6, using the same instance of Amanda.
Anyone know how to configure this? I can imagine defining two changers and specifying which to use
in the dumptype, but I don't see quite how that would be done.
My changer is as follows. I've added the new device ID as a comment for the moment. The new tape
drives came up as nst1 and nst2.
define changer NEO200 {
tpchanger "chg-robot:/dev/tape/by-id/scsi-1IBM_3573-TL_00L2U78AB542_LL0" # your changer device
file (T24)
#>>> NOTE!!! following is the new (7/14/2017) LTO7 48slot 2drive tape library. Need to work out
transition.
# tpchanger "chg-robot:/dev/tape/by-id/scsi-1BDT_FlexStor_II_00MX64200626_LL0" # your changer
device file (T48)
property "tape-device" "0=tape:/dev/nst0" # your tape drive device file
property "use-slots" "1-22"
}
tpchanger "NEO200"
Just as an aside, we are starting to set up new data arrays using 10TB HGST Helium filled drives —
eight of them in the last month or so (multipath SAS configured mdadm raid6 with lvm). Almost makes
you want to pull out your hair thinking about backups.
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