Re: Amvault for the Compleat Dummy
On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 09:10:05AM +0200, Matthias Teege wrote: > How many tapes do you use for "vaulting" and how do you rotate the > tapes? Does the amvault job using the same settings as the daily job > to vtapes? It follows the storage profile. So you tell it the retention levels and rejects 'in use' tapes. Other than that remember that the tapecycle is only for planning and defaulting purposes, you can always use more 'tapes' than specified. > I'm doing dailys to vtapes which are smaller as my "real" tapes. If > I understand amvault correctly I can write more then one dump to tape > with something like 'amvault --src-timestamp "201707..." --dst-changer > vaulting-tape daily' but have to rotate the tapes "by hand". Yes, the only issue is to find an adequate filter for amvault since each invocation starts a new tape (the usual amanda "never append to a tape" rule). And anyway the amvault interface is still in flux so maybe one day there will be something like the file list of cpio (I want to vault this, this and this in one vaulting run) -- Lorenzo Marcantonio signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Amvault for the Compleat Dummy
On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 08:36:16AM +0200, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: Hi! > On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 08:06:29AM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Sure, pls share for us to learn/copy/ask. > > The vaulting run is done with > > amvault DailySet --latest-fulls --dest-storage VAULT-STORAGE How many tapes do you use for "vaulting" and how do you rotate the tapes? Does the amvault job using the same settings as the daily job to vtapes? I'm doing dailys to vtapes which are smaller as my "real" tapes. If I understand amvault correctly I can write more then one dump to tape with something like 'amvault --src-timestamp "201707..." --dst-changer vaulting-tape daily' but have to rotate the tapes "by hand". Thanks! Matthias
Re: Amvault for the Compleat Dummy
On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 08:06:29AM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Sure, pls share for us to learn/copy/ask.
This is the amanda.conf (disklist is not relevant)
org "DailySet"
infofile "/var/amanda/state/DailySet/curinfo"
logdir "/var/amanda/state/DailySet/log"
indexdir "/var/amanda/state/DailySet/index"
# Taperscan is needed because otherwise tape change mail doesn't work!
define taperscan OLDEST-TAPERSCAN {
plugin "lexical"
}
# Stuff for the VTAPE storage - daily operations
define tapetype VTAPE-TAPE {
comment "220 GB VTAPE"
length 220 gbytes
filemark 64 kbytes
part-size 8 gbytes
}
define changer VTAPE-CHANGER {
tpchanger "chg-disk:/vtape/DailySet"
property "NUM-SLOT" "30"
property "AUTO-CREATE-SLOT" "yes"
}
define storage "VTAPE-STORAGE" {
tapetype "VTAPE-TAPE"
labelstr "DailySet[0-9][0-9][0-9]"
tpchanger "VTAPE-CHANGER"
autoflush all
runtapes 1
}
# Stuff for the LTO drive
define device LTO-DEVICE {
tapedev "tape:/dev/nst0"
device-property "BLOCK_SIZE" "262144"
device-property "LEOM" "no"
}
define changer LTO-CHANGER {
tpchanger "chg-single:LTO-DEVICE"
}
# Note for myself: buy LTO3 tapes, double capacity and a LOT faster
define tapetype LTO2-TAPE {
comment "LTO-2 Tape in LTO-3 Drive"
length 200 gbytes
filemark 512 kbytes
speed 22000 kps
blocksize 256 kbytes
}
# Vaulting the full dump takes 2 LTO2 tapes
define policy "VAULT-POLICY" {
retention-days 0
retention-full 0
retention-tapes 3
retention-recover 0
}
define storage "VAULT-STORAGE" {
tapetype "LTO2-TAPE"
tpchanger "LTO-CHANGER"
labelstr "DailySetT[0-9][0-9][0-9]"
policy "VAULT-POLICY"
runtapes 2
}
# Gigabit ethernet
define interface "eth0" {
comment "Ethernet connected"
use 8000
}
# Send mail for tape change
define interactivity EMAIL-INTERACTIVITY {
plugin "email"
property "mailto" "l.marcanto...@proxind.it"
property "resend-delay" "1800"
property "check-file" "/tmp/amanda/email-input"
property "check-file-delay" "10"
}
holdingdisk HOLDING1 {
directory "/var/amanda/holding/DailySet"
use 300 gbytes
chunksize 0
}
# application-tool and dumptype here --- not relevant
# General dump configuration to tie all together
dumpuser "amanda"
mailto "l.marcanto...@proxind.it"
taperscan "OLDEST-TAPERSCAN"
send-amreport-on all
interactivity "EMAIL-INTERACTIVITY"
displayunit "m"
columnspec "HostName=0:-10:10,Disk=1:-10:10"
storage "VTAPE-STORAGE"
tapecycle 30 tapes
dumpcycle 10 days
runspercycle 10
Now, the vtape dump is done with 'amdump DailySet', as usual.
The vaulting run is done with
amvault DailySet --latest-fulls --dest-storage VAULT-STORAGE
Where 'dest-storage' is the mandatory option (IIRC there is a default or
an option in amanda.conf to be used for automatic vaulting too)
Have fun
If only 3.4.5 wouldn't have the 'stuck taper syndrome' it would work
quite fine. I sometime I have to kill the stuck taper in the morning :(
--
Lorenzo Marcantonio
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Re: Amvault for the Compleat Dummy
Am 2017-07-10 um 13:26 schrieb Lorenzo Marcantonio: > On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 12:37:42PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger > wrote: >> Am 2017-06-16 um 00:28 schrieb Charles Curley: >>> I get the distinct impression I should do some setup before I >>> can use amvault. However, none of the documentation I've found >>> so far indicates what I should do to get set up. >> >> same here, same here. Does anyone understand and use that? ;-) > > I use it, and it's still in flux... anyway you need to define in > your amanda.conf a new storage/changer/device for the vaulting > operation and pass it to the amvault command line. > > There is also an 'automatic' vaulting at dump time but I never > tried it > > I can supply the conf if you want (I use a vtape directory > vaulting manually the latest full to LTO) Sure, pls share for us to learn/copy/ask. Thanks.
Re: Amvault for the Compleat Dummy
On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 12:37:42PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 2017-06-16 um 00:28 schrieb Charles Curley: > > I get the distinct impression I should do some setup before I can use > > amvault. However, none of the documentation I've found so far indicates > > what I should do to get set up. > > same here, same here. > Does anyone understand and use that? ;-) I use it, and it's still in flux... anyway you need to define in your amanda.conf a new storage/changer/device for the vaulting operation and pass it to the amvault command line. There is also an 'automatic' vaulting at dump time but I never tried it I can supply the conf if you want (I use a vtape directory vaulting manually the latest full to LTO) -- Lorenzo Marcantonio signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Amvault for the Compleat Dummy
Am 2017-06-16 um 00:28 schrieb Charles Curley: > I get the distinct impression I should do some setup before I can use > amvault. However, none of the documentation I've found so far indicates > what I should do to get set up. same here, same here. Does anyone understand and use that? ;-)
Amvault for the Compleat Dummy
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