I browsed the archives and found the huge thread "approaches to Amanda
vaulting" from 2017 ...
I am quite sure that there is many useful information in these postings
but I'd prefer to start over.
In my experience that vaulting stuff is either non-intuitive and/or
under-documented ;-)
If I would understand it better I could even imagine writing some small
howto. But I am far from.
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At a customer I run an amanda config using 6 external USB-disks in rotation.
I set up an aggregate changer consisting of 6 vtape-changers like:
define changer disk6 {
tpchanger "chg-disk:/mnt/externaldisk6"
property "num_slot" "20"
property "auto-create-slot" "yes"
property "removable" "yes"
property "MOUNT" "yes"
property "UMOUNT" "yes"
property "UMOUNT-LOCKFILE"
"/etc/amanda/vtape/externaldisk6.lock"
property "UMOUNT-DELAY" "1"
}
define changer aggregate {
tpchanger "chg-aggregate:{disk1,disk2,disk3,disk4,disk5,disk6}"
property "state_filename" "/etc/amanda/vtape/aggregate.stats"
property "allow-missing-changer" "yes"
}
tpchanger "aggregate"
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then a storage:
DEFINE STORAGE vtape {
TPCHANGER "aggregate"
LABELSTR "vtape-[0-9]*-[0-9]*"
TAPEPOOL "vtape"
RUNTAPES 1
TAPERSCAN "lexi"
TAPETYPE "vtape"
TAPERALGO FIRST
AUTOFLUSH yes
FLUSH-THRESHOLD-DUMPED 100
FLUSH-THRESHOLD-SCHEDULED 100
TAPERFLUSH 50
}
The goal was:
* it shouldn't matter which usb-disk is attached
* amanda should rotate over 20 vtapes per external disk (if the disks
aren't swapped / people forget to change them ...)
So far that works.
Now I want to add this:
additional to having the responsible person change the usb-disk and
taking them out of office there, I want to somehow get a copy/clone of a
full set of lev0 to my place here (preferably without having to drive ...)
->
idea 1) collect fulls into one specific vtape (for example via "amadmin
force" on the last friday of the month or so) .... then rsync/rclone
that one vtape-dir to my server here (bandwidth and time aside ...)
idea 2) setup some 2nd storage and vault the fulls onto that, then sync that
As you may remember I was never able to set that up successfully :-P
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I am quite sure that I overcomplicate things, and I'd like to hear your
ideas and suggestions ...
thanks, Stefan
