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, I put a symlink at amanda.conf and changer.conf > pointing to the 2 versions. That works. I labeled all the new LTO6 tapes > with a 2 in front, so my old AIT5 tapes are geo-daily-001 through 030, and > the new ones are 201 through 220 for starters. Then I put no-reuse on the > old ones. > > I initially tried just putting a reference to changer2.conf in amanda.conf, > but amanda generated a whole new set of changer-... files with the 2. So I > got rid of those and did it as described above. That leaves them all > together. If I do an amrecover that calls for the older tapes, I can mount > them from the old library and indicate that drive to recover from. That > gives me a smooth transition with normal Amanda planner and incrementals > based on the fulls that were just recently done on the AIT5 tapes. I'm > pretty sure I'll be able to recover in situations where Amanda calls for a > full from an AIT5 tape followed by an incremental that's on an LTO6. But, > going forward, it will all be on the LTO6. Ultimately, I can ask Amanda to > just forget about the AIT5 tapes and all data associated with them. > > Backups continue to run smoothly and successfully with this setup. > Chris,
The steps you took, including the negative attempts, would make a good article for the amanda wiki. Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) Reston, VA 20190 (703) 935-6720 (C)
