Re: transition to new tape library

2015-06-19 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
to be specified anyway. -Original Message- From: owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org [mailto:owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org] On Behalf Of Debra S Baddorf Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2015 3:12 PM To: Chris Hoogendyk Cc: Debra S Baddorf; AMANDA users Subject: Re: transition to new tape library I suspect some

Re: transition to new tape library

2015-06-19 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 11:49:23AM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Thanks, Brian. I think that amrestore comment is the key. What I did was move my amanda.conf and changer.conf to amanda1.conf and changer1.conf. Then I replicated them with a 2 and edited that for the new tape library. Finally,

transition to new tape library

2015-06-16 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
This ought to be a not uncommon situation: I have an existing server running Amanda 3.3.3 (on Ubuntu 12.04) with a Sony Lib162-A5 tape library. I've added a SAS card and a NEOs T24 LTO6 tape library. How can I configure Amanda with both libraries so that all new backups go to the T24, but if I

Re: transition to new tape library

2015-06-16 Thread Debra S Baddorf
On Jun 16, 2015, at 2:11 PM, Debra S Baddorf badd...@fnal.gov wrote: I suspect some manual intervention will be required (unless others think of a really clever way). How about creating a new configuration, such as DAILY2 for the new tape library. It would gradually build up its history

Re: transition to new tape library

2015-06-16 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Chris, Define a new changer and set tpchanger to that changer. If you don't already define a changer, then also define one for the old changer. I would also use a different labeling scheme. See: man amanda-changers Jean-Louis On 16/06/15 02:41 PM, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: This ought to be a

Re: transition to new tape library

2015-06-16 Thread Debra S Baddorf
I suspect some manual intervention will be required (unless others think of a really clever way). How about creating a new configuration, such as DAILY2 for the new tape library. It would gradually build up its history as it fills tapes, but YOU the intelligent human will have to know to do