On Thursday 08 November 2018 05:02:30 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: For those who might be interested, the link on my web page that leads to "Genes-os9-stf", now has a new readme for GenesAmandaHelper, and a fresh backup of that whole thing as 00029etcetc. Adjust to suit your system. Its been in use here since 2002. Currently working with amanda-3.5.1.
> Am 07.11.18 um 18:25 schrieb Chris Miller: > > Hi Austin, > > > > Thanks very much. Your comments have been very helpful, and I > > appreciate the obviously considerable amount of time you spent to > > help me. I'm much farther along on this project as a result. I have > > no idea how I'm going to verify that everything is working the way I > > expect it to work, but I guess I will become much more familiar with > > how to manage AMANDA as I spend more time. AmCheck tells me that I > > only have one problem. I think AMANDA can't find the vtapes, so I > > need to learn much more about vtapes. This is an area that I > > understand theoretically, but I'm having trouble turning this theory > > into practice.Is there a good discussion of vtapes somewhere? > > > > > > > > I have this line in amanda.conf: > > > > tapetype "NAS" > > tpchanger "chg-disk:/etc/amanda/mail.tclc.org/dst" > > labelstr "vtape.[0-9][0-9]" > > > > > > > > I am apparently not doing what I want to do, which is point AMANDA > > to my NAS: > > > > bash-4.2$ ls -al /etc/amanda/mail.tclc.org/ > > You are free to do as you like but I recommend the following (my own > way of doing it, more standard ...) > > /etc should contain only config > > Not vtapes, not data, not logs. > > I prefer mounted filesystems under /mnt, and logs under /var/log (or > in systemd journal ... another topic) > > I mount my NAS or external disks under /mnt, like in > > # /etc/fstab > > UUID=5a5a9927-995f-4f0f-98ff-d222561f84ff /mnt/externaldisk1 ext4 > relatime,noauto,user 0 1 > > chown these dirs (= mounted fs) to your amandauser to allow amanda > rw-access. > > and then define your chg-disk changer as in: > > tpchanger "chg-disk:/mnt/externaldisk1" > > proceed from there ... > > Did you read: > > https://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Set_Up_Virtual_Tapes#Configur >ation > > (maybe it needs updates as well) > > ? Copyright 2018 by Maurice E. Heskett -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
