On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 10:37:48AM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 13.04.22 um 09:56 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > > > > Am 12.04.22 um 17:57 schrieb Jose M Calhariz: > > > Hi, > > > > > > To tell that I have 1 instalation of amanda in Debian 11 with vtapes > > > working flawless. Can we share the setup? > > > > Sure, I'd appreciate that. > > > > I have several vtape-installations working OK, it seems that the special > > config with aggregating 2 or more chg-disk-changers is the problem here. > > > > I will post such a config in the next hour. > > OK, showing. > > I won't post the whole amanda.conf as it is long and maybe irrelevant for > this topic. > > Just the parts around the changers, and some scheduling parameters. > > See "amadmin vtape config" here: > > https://gist.github.com/stefangweichinger/693eeb2c0c02d03abb31b53073352dd1 > > (yes, way too many old dumptypes in there etc) > > - > > I take the setup from a site where we have 7 external USB drives with vtapes > on them. > > So 7 changer devices like this: > > define changer disk1 { > tpchanger "chg-disk:/mnt/externaldisk1" > property "num_slot" "20" > property "auto-create-slot" "yes" > property "removable" "yes" > property "MOUNT" "yes" > property "UMOUNT" "yes" > property "UMOUNT-LOCKFILE" > "/etc/amanda/vtape/externaldisk1.lock" > property "UMOUNT-DELAY" "1" > } > > define changer disk2 { > tpchanger "chg-disk:/mnt/externaldisk2" > property "num_slot" "20" > property "auto-create-slot" "yes" > property "removable" "yes" > property "MOUNT" "yes" > property "UMOUNT" "yes" > property "UMOUNT-LOCKFILE" > "/etc/amanda/vtape/externaldisk2.lock" > property "UMOUNT-DELAY" "1" > } > > ... up to changer disk3. all the disks are listed in /etc/fstab > > UUID=5a5a9927-995f-4f0f-98ff-d222561f84ff /mnt/externaldisk1 ext4 > relatime,noauto,user 0 2 > > and are (un-)mounted by the backup-user at amanda runtime. > > - > > The 7 chg-disk changers are aggregated into one "tpchanger" via > chg-aggregate: > > define changer aggregate { > tpchanger "chg-aggregate:{disk1,disk2,disk3,disk4,disk5,disk6,disk7}" > property "state_filename" "/etc/amanda/vtape/aggregate.stats" > property "allow-missing-changer" "yes" > } > > And that one is used via: > > tpchanger "aggregate" > > - The "design goal" here was: > > an employee should swap the usb-disk every week. > > Amanda should rotate vtapes on one disk if they forget to change the disk. > > Amanda should use vtapes on each external disk, regardless which disk is > attached. > > That works OK. > > Right now it's only that issue around "why aren't existing vtapes recognized > and used?". >
My setup is more simple I have several RAID6, each one is always mounted, on /vTapes1, /vTapes2, ... and there is a /vLibrary where there is all slots directories that are symbolic links into /vTapes* Have you look inside /mnt/externaldisk* to check if everything seams OK? Kind regards Jose M Calhariz -- -- Conheci no Brasil a miséria rica. Hoje, conheço a riqueza miserável --Adolpho Bloch
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