On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:43:32 -0400
Florian Lengyel <florian.leng...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not familiar with vtapes, but in any case their amanda.conf file
> has
>
> dumpcycle 1 day # the number of days in the normal dump cycle
> runspercycle -1 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days
> # (4 weeks * 5 amdump runs per week -- just weekdays)
> tapecycle 25 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation
> # 4 weeks (dumpcycle) times 5 tapes per week (just
> # the weekdays) plus a few to handle errors that
> # need amflush and so we do not overwrite the full
> # backups performed at the beginning of the previous
> # cycle
>
>
> (not sure why runspercycle is -1)
>From the amanda.conf man page:
A value of -1 means guess the number of runs from the tapelist(5)
file, which is the number of tapes used in the last dumpcycle
days / runtapes.
http://wiki.zmanda.com/man/amanda.conf.5.html
>
> and they have
>
> runtapes 5 # number of tapes to be used in a single run of amdump
> tpchanger "chg-disk" # the tape-changer glue script
> tapedev "file:/home1_data/backups/DailySet3/slots" # the no-rewind
Is that correct? I have
tapedev "file:/media/backs/amanda/DailySet1"
and a bunch of "slot*" directories in DailySet1. Reading this, I would
expect your slot* directories to be in the subdirectory "slots".
> tape device to be used
> changerfile "/etc/amanda/DailySet3/changer"
> changerdev "@DEFAULT_CHANGER_DEVICE@"
Odd. On my 2.5.1 configuration, changerdev is set to "/dev/null". On my
3.1.0 system it isn't set at all, and it defaults to "/dev/null".
http://wiki.zmanda.com/man/amanda-changers.7.html
>
> The file
>
> /etc/amanda/DailySet3/changer
>
> does not exist.
You may not need it, in which case I'd take it out entirely or give it
a dummy value. On one of my systems (2.5.2p1, ancient), my entry points
to a non-existent file, in an extant directory. On a 3.1.0 system, I
don't have it at all. Both use vtapes.
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