That sounds good. I'm on Amanda 3.3.6, but I just downloaded the source for
3.4.5, and I can build that.
Any issues with building 3.4.5 over the top of 3.3.6?
With all the changes/additions to 3.4, I guess I'll be spending some quality
time with man pages. ;-)
On 7/17/17 5:14 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
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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