Hi Folks, My thanks to the guys that helped me. You know who you are -- Austin, Gene, Stefan, Nathan.
My problem with vtapes was that the name of the slots, "slot..." was not arbitrary, or at least not arbitrary on my part. I fixed that, and backups are happening as we speak. Beers all 'round. I now have a bit of breathing room, and I can review ALL the "HowTo"s, which is a pretty good place to start. So, now I have a couple of "clean-up" questions to conclude this thread: vtape labels: Are these just an artifact of the tape heritage, meaning, How is the label any more restrictive/protective than the path to and filename of the vtape? It's not like you can inadvertently mount the wrong directory, is it?Well, actually, in the case of my NAS configuration, I guess that is possible, but unlikely except in the case of some sort of NAS failure and recovery. Is there a discussion somewhere describing how these are used and what sort of failures they can prevent in the vtape world? And back to my original question about "per-clent configuration", I recognize that I will effectively be running N copies of AMANDA, and none of them will be aware of the others. I think this means that I have defeated the scheduler. I don't want to do that. It occurs to me that AMANDA does not know what any other copies are doing, which means that they could ALL schedule level 0 on the same night! I think I'd like to change my design from per-client configs in separate directories, to per-client qualified definitions in one amanda.conf. I see artifacts in various examples that lead me to believe that this can be done, and is probably preferable to my current scheme, because I then would have only one copy of AMANDA running and there can be a more sensible schedule. I'm most interested -- in fact, I am probably only interested -- that each client be able to direct backup storage to a location specific to that client. Can anybody show me an example of several per-client configs in a single amanda.conf? Thanks for the help, -- Chris. V:916.974.0424 F:916.974.0428
