Re: VTape configuration

2017-12-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 29 December 2017 17:12:07 Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 12:28:33PM -0800, Chris Miller wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > > > Just setting things up, and I think I ran out of docs... > > > > I have no tape drives, so that means "vtape", which is fine, as long > > as I can size the v

Re: VTape configuration

2017-12-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 12:28:33PM -0800, Chris Miller wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Just setting things up, and I think I ran out of docs... > > I have no tape drives, so that means "vtape", which is fine, as long as I can > size the vtape volume to be no larger than and no smaller than the current

Re: amanda is skipping over available tapes [mea culpa]

2017-12-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
Top-posting as there is no longer anything interesting below. This was a self-inflicted boondoggle. When I created the extra vtapes, the ones that were being skipped, amanda kept reordering the tapelist file in ways I did not want. I found if I marked the new tapes as "no-reuse" (even though the

Re: VTape configuration

2017-12-29 Thread Winston Sorfleet
Hello Chris Could you explain your concern about multiple volumes? You would normally set up a number of vtapes, and each amanda run would use one or more of them depending on the size of the backup for that particular run. For me I use 20GB volumes as it replaced an old DDS4 robot. I have a

VTape configuration

2017-12-29 Thread Chris Miller
Hi Folks, Just setting things up, and I think I ran out of docs... I have no tape drives, so that means "vtape", which is fine, as long as I can size the vtape volume to be no larger than and no smaller than the current backup under consideration. Is this possible? Seems like a silly question