On 29/08/17 02:37 PM, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
Thank you! I've got that set up now.
I tried labeling tapes. I thought it was working. e.g.:
You should never use the '-o tpchanger=' argument, it is always better
to use '-ostorage='
That will set the storage and the pool correctly.
amanda@marlin:~/daily$ amlabel -f -o tpchanger=NEO200x48 -o
'labelstr="^Bio-Research-[0-9][0-9][0-9]*$"' daily "Bio-Research-001"
slot 1
Reading label...
Found label 'amtapetype-206980288' but it is not in the tapelist file.
Writing label 'Bio-Research-001'...
Checking label...
Success!
After that (which I repeated for several tapes), I tried
amanda@marlin:~/daily$ amlabel --storage research --assign daily
"Bio-Research-[0-9][0-9][0-9]"
Bio-Research-001: Can't assign storage without force, old storage is
'daily'
[etc. for each of the several tapes]
So, adding -f
amanda@marlin:~/daily$ amlabel -f --storage research --assign daily
"Bio-Research-[0-9][0-9][0-9]"
Bio-Research-001: Can't assign storage because it is a new labelled tape.
[etc. for each of the several tapes]
All labels already correctly set.
Changing the storage is useless, but we could allow amlabel to change it.
And looking at the tapelist, I see entries like:
0 Bio-Research-001 reuse BARCODE:000001L7 BLOCKSIZE:2048 POOL:daily
STORAGE:daily CONFIG:daily
A label is not bound to a storage, the listed storage is the latest
storage that used that tape,
A tape is bound to a pool, and it can be in any storage that use that pool.
Have I done something wrong? Or is that going to work, because it is a
blank tape. In other words,
since it is only accessible via tpchanger=NEO200x48, which is in the
definition of the storage
research; will it be accessed by those backups with the tag research
and then re listed in the
tapelist as belonging to storage research?
I also wasn't finding much detail in the man pages on the implications
of pools. I don't have any
such designations in my amanda.conf.
A pool is just a name, a storage will use any tape that is in the same pool.
Jean-Louis
On 8/29/17 6:45 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
> Chris,
>
> Everything looks good except the 'define changer' should be before the
> 'define storage'.
>
> define changer NEO200x48 {
> tpchanger
> "chg-robot:/dev/tape/by-id/scsi-1BDT_FlexStor_II_00MX64200626_LL0" #
> your changer device file (T48)
> property "tape-device" "0=tape:/dev/nst1" # your tape
> drive device file
> property append "tape-device" "1=tape:/dev/nst2" # your
> tape drive device file
> property "use-slots" "1-11" # UPDATE WHEN TAPES
> ADDED <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> }
>
> define storage research {
> tpchanger "NEO200x48"
> tapetype LTO7
> labelstr "^Bio-Research-[0-9][0-9][0-9]*$"
> amrecover_changer "NEO200x48"
> dump-selection "Research" ALL
> }
>
> Jean-Louis
>
> On 28/08/17 05:46 PM, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
> > I haven't found any examples of Amanda configurations using storage
> > definitions. Having read through the man pages, I've come up with a
> > modification of my amanda.conf that I think should work, and I'm
> > looking for comments and feedback.
> >
> > I had temporarily set up a separate Amanda configuration to test my
> > new LTO7 tape library. That seemed to work, and I was able to generate
> > a typetype for LTO7. Now I want to fold it into my regular daily
> > amanda.conf and have that use both my current LTO6 library and the new
> > LTO7.
> >
> > I've added a section as follows:
> >
> > define storage research {
> >
> > define changer NEO200x48 {
> > tpchanger
> > "chg-robot:/dev/tape/by-id/scsi-1BDT_FlexStor_II_00MX64200626_LL0"
# your
> > changer device file (T48)
> > property "tape-device" "0=tape:/dev/nst1" # your tape
> > drive device file
> > property append "tape-device" "1=tape:/dev/nst2" # your
> > tape drive device file
> > property "use-slots" "1-11" # UPDATE WHEN TAPES
> > ADDED <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> > }
> > tpchanger "NEO200x48"
> >
> > tapetype LTO7
> >
> > labelstr "^Bio-Research-[0-9][0-9][0-9]*$"
> >
> > amrecover_changer "NEO200x48"
> >
> > dump-selection "Research" ALL
> >
> > }
> >
> > immediately after those same settings in the daily amanda.conf.
> >
> > I'm thinking with that in the configuration, I will be able to label
> > tapes by, e.g.
> >
> > amlabel --storage "Research" daily "Bio-Research-012"
> >
> > Then I should be able to shift DLEs from the daily to the Research
> > storage by putting a
> >
> > tag "Research"
> >
> > in the dump type, or in the DLE.
> >
> > I'm assuming that the default will follow my pre-existing amanda.conf
> > with a default storage of "daily".
> >
> >
>
>
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