I believe that you would define tape pool of 80 for each, with regular
expressions you may be able to have the same label string format but different
tape number ranges.
Maybe like this?
Sales POOL1[0-9][0-9]
Support POOL2[0-9][0-9]
Research POOL3[0-9][0-9]
For sanity I think I'd define 3 tape pools in the one changer. You spend time
loading and unloading tapes to find the pool and tapes you want, but since this
is done without having to access a physical tape drive or robot it will take
virtually no time at all.
-Original Message-
From: owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org On Behalf
Of Jon LaBadie
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2018 3:25 PM
To: amanda-users@amanda.org
Subject: tape pools, wrapping my mind around them
ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open attachments or
click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails.
I currently have 240 Vtapes in a single changer.
Suppose I have 3 "departments", sales, research, and support.
Could I create 3 dumptype definitions so that all "sales" DLEs are backed up to
a tape pool consisting of vtapes 1-80, "research" to vtapes 81-160, and
"support" to vtapes 161-240?
If so, then a single config could handle keeping the various data separated
while still maintaining balance etc. Of course, is the balance on a tape pool
basis or on a total configuration basis?
Jon
--
Jon H. LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com
11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H)
Reston, VA 20190 (703) 935-6720 (C)