It can only be done with amanda 3.4, where you can define 2 storage and put on the dumptype on which storage you want the dump to go.

Jean-Louis

On 14/07/17 05:38 PM, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
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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