Thanks for the reply. I don't have multiple configurations, I'm just trying to figure out how to set things up. So it sounds like I can have a single configuration that uses the same group of tapes as defined by 'labelstr', and I use the DLE lists to break things up into manageable chunks. Then with amdump, I can specify the individual DLE's to be dumped?
-M On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau <martin...@zmanda.com>wrote: > On 01/09/2014 01:47 PM, Michael Stauffer wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm setting up amanda 3.3.4. >> >> Regarding 'labelstr' in amanda.conf: >> >> The documentation says: "If multiple configurations are run from the same >> tape server host, it is helpful to set their labels to different strings >> (for example, "DAILY[0-9][0-9]*" vs. "ARCHIVE[0-9][0-9]*") to avoid >> overwriting each other's tapes." >> >> Does this mean that if I have multiple configurations in order to break >> up a large 30TB data set into managable chunks, each configuration will >> have to have a particular set of tapes assigned to it? That seems very >> awkward if so. >> >> > yes > > Why do you have multiple configurations? > You should do it with one configuration and multiple dle. > > Jean-Louis >
