Hi Brian, > From: "Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH)" <brian.cutt...@health.ny.gov> > To: "Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH)" <brian.cutt...@health.ny.gov>, "Chris Miller" > <c...@tryx.org>, "amanda-users" <amanda-users@amanda.org> > Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 9:08:26 AM > Subject: RE: Configuration confusion
> Tape custody – means what, retention policy or storage of the tape when not in > the drive/juke? Yes. Simplest is local custody. Off site custody comes in two media flavors -- local media and cloud. Off site costs, so we want to minimize this, as well as increases the response time for restorations. You get the idea. I don't use tapes; I use removable disks, optical media,and usb keydrives. General this is determined by the client, so when I plan this, I simply consider which client backups need to be sequestered where. This gives me a configuration where I can think in terms of "client <A> gets backedup to NAS <A>", where NAS <A> has different properties and different dispositions. > Amanda is not an archiver in the sense that the tapes are cycled on a regular > basis. You are able to tape a tape out of rotation and replace it, or create a > unique tape label and perform level 0 backups to it and then mark it as > no-reuse in the tapelist, but the primary function is not long term archiving, > though the tools exist to do that very well. > You can use the same tape pool for all three Amanda configs, but they will > need > to have a common tapelist file. But if you are doing that then you are > selecting a single set of standards for your data-at-rest security, in which > case there is little reason to maintain 3 different configs. > Each Amanda config will look to level nightly data, but you will have nights > with relatively little and nights with relatively large data volume swings, er > think wave interference from physics. You eliminate a lot of that by combining > disklists into a single configuration. Yes! " Each Amanda config will look to level nightly data ..." This is my principle question, and I seek to level the nightly data across all configs on a given night, which I recognize can't be done, so I seek to combine my multiple configs into a single config which specifies multiple sets of DLEs being mapped to multiple tapedev, if that can be done. For example, if the definition of tapedev had a "DLE ..." argument, and AMANDA were capable of this additional dimension of scheduling. > Amanda will backup a new DLE at level 0 the first time it sees it. If you are > worried about running long you will want to phase in the DLEs across several > evenings. You may want to add the largest on Friday night, assuming that no > one > cares how late Amanda runs into Saturday. You will want to avoid adding > multiple large DLEs on a single night, add a large and a small each night > until > they are all added. "Phasing" my backup jobs may be my only choice, as that is exactly the problem I seek to avoid and I have been admonished to not try to subvert the scheduler by forcing level 0 backups to happen on my schedule. As I continue to discuss this, I am more and more convinced that AMANDA cannot schedule in two dimensions {(backups / night) X (nights / cycle)} So, suppose I wanted to force my level 0 backups to happen at my discretion, so I can level my nightly run times. How would I do that? Thanks for the help, Brian. -- Chris. V:916.974.0424 F:916.974.0428