Chris,

How many work areas? How many tape drives?

I have one config per amanda service platform, I have several amanda server 
platforms, each backing up a unique and non-overlapping set of clients.

Are you creating multiple amanda configs and running them from a single amanda 
server?

You can do that, if they have non-overlapping clients, or you have structured 
them in a way that will backup level 0 from one config and never level 0 from 
the other, but that defeats the entire purpose of the amanda scheduler.

Also I’d be very much surprised if you could successfully run multiple configs 
concurrently from a single server, you “might” be able to if you were able to 
assure unique sockets for each instance of the server, but I wouldn’t recommend 
such a setup.
Oh, in the case of concurrent runs you want to make strictly certain that 
clients are unique to config, an amanda client can only reply to a single 
master, you can’t have multiple concurrent clients on the server end.

Brian


Brian Cuttler
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Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 10:44 AM
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Subject: Monitor and Manage


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Hi Folks,

I now have three working configs, meaning that I can backup three clients. 
There is not much difference among the configs, but that is a topic for a 
different thread. My question is how I manage what AMANDA is doing?

So, let's suppose I fire up all three amdumps at once:

  *   How do I know if I'm getting level 0 or higher?
  *   How do I know the backups are running and have not silently failed?
  *   How do I know when they complete?
  *   How do I know what has been accomplished?
  *   :
These are all the sort of questions that might be answered by some sort of 
dashboard, but I haven't heard of any such thing, nor do I expect to hear of 
any such thing, but I am also equally sure that all the answers exist. I just 
don't know where.

In short, how do I monitor and mange AMANDA?

Thanks for the help,
--
Chris.

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