Unfortunately the "documentation" on amanda is not up to scratch.
I've been trying for a few days now to get this thing to work. 8-( I've gone through the archives but it is very hard sometimes to find exactly what you are looking for. When I changed the amanda configuration file to use runtapes 2 tpchanger "chg-manual" and try to label the tape I get the following error. any ideas? [root@zeus tmp]# su amanda -c "amlabel -f DailySet1 DMP01" bash: /root/.bashrc: Permission denied labeling tape in slot /usr/lib/amanda/chg-manual: (/usr/adm/amanda/changer-status-clean: No such file or directory): rewinding amlabel: no tape online Also I've noticed that some people use an extra parameter in their disklist configuration file, what is it used for? I can't find any docs. eg localhost /var always-full 0 What is that 0 value for, some people use 1. Thanks On Thursday 31 October 2002 18:04, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 at 10:03am, Steve Simeonidis wrote > > > 1/ > > Some of the data we backup do not fit on a single tape > > How do I handle that if we haven't got a changer?? > > > > 2/ > > Usually we do full backups only. We have 7 tapes, 5 weekday and 2 > > that are used as "weekly" tapes that are send to another location. > > How can I configure that with amanda? I'm a bit confused > > with dumpcycle-runspercycle-tapecycle-runtapes > > If you'll look through the archives, you'll see this is a very common > beginner's question. Typically, forcing amanda to do what you want > doesn't work as well as letting it do what it wants -- it's good at it's > job. > > As for your questions, if you have partitions that are bigger than a tape, > you can split them up into multiple disklist entries if you specify GNUTAR > as your dump program. You say you do full backups only, but some data > sets are bigger than a tape -- how can you do weeklies then? > > In your situation, I'd do this: > > For your nightly backups, define a Daily configuration. dumpcycle 1 week, > runspercycle 5, and tapecycle 10 (you'll need to buy more tapes -- having > tapecycle=runspercycle is Bad, as one failed backup can mean you destroy > your only backup of some systems). For the weeklies, dumpcycle 0, > tapecycle 2 (or however many you need to fit all your data). > > Good luck.
