amlabel question
I again have a silly question:) At attempt to set a label to tapes, amlabel gives out a following mistake: amlabel: label svn16 doesn't match labelstr ^svn[1-25][1-25]*$ amlabel: label svn17 doesn't match labelstr ^svn[1-25][1-25]*$ amlabel: label svn18 doesn't match labelstr ^svn[1-25][1-25]*$ amlabel: label svn19 doesn't match labelstr ^svn[1-25][1-25]*$ amlabel: label svn20 doesn't match labelstr ^svn[1-25][1-25]*$ in amanda.conf labelstr has a following appearance: labelstr ^svn[1-25][1-25]*$ What I not so do?
Re: amlabel question
wrote: amlabel: label svn16 doesn't match labelstr ^svn[1-25][1-25]*$ in amanda.conf labelstr has a following appearance: labelstr ^svn[1-25][1-25]*$ Learn something more about regular expressions again. Between square brackets is a set of characters, and a range indicate just a character range: [1-39] means 1, or 2, or 3 or 9. The above [1-25] means: 1 or 2 or 5. Which fails because it encounters a 6. A better label is: ^svn[0-9][0-9]$. The label is just to protect you from accidently overwriting a tape having nothing to do with amanda, and to avoid mixing different configurations of tapes (when you multiple configs, e.g. one for archiving one for daily, or one for that department and another config for a different department). There is no need to limit the possible range of numbers to 25 in the labelstring -- too strict. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, F6, * * quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * * kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ...* * ... Are you sure? ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***
amlabel question
woohoo...I'm actually making progress...amcheck actually completed mostly without errors (mainly because I stupidly left the disklist at the default that came with amanda...silly...silly). I also forgot to label my tapes (I am currently in the process of this). Now the question...I have a 7 tape magazine...I'm gonna have to set runtapes to 2...I was planning to start sequentially labeling the tapes (daily000, daily001,...), should I label them 0-6 and then label the next magazine 7-13 or some other scheme?...docs aren't very clear on that. I still am not too clear on the dumpcycle, runcycle, tapecycle, motorcycle, etc rules yet...alas more perusing of docs... =G=
Re: amlabel question
On Tuesday 10 September 2002 14:29, Galen Johnson wrote: woohoo...I'm actually making progress...amcheck actually completed mostly without errors (mainly because I stupidly left the disklist at the default that came with amanda...silly...silly). I also forgot to label my tapes (I am currently in the process of this). Now the question...I have a 7 tape magazine...I'm gonna have to set runtapes to 2...I was planning to start sequentially labeling the tapes (daily000, daily001,...), should I label them 0-6 and then label the next magazine 7-13 or some other scheme?...docs aren't very clear on that. I still am not too clear on the dumpcycle, runcycle, tapecycle, motorcycle, etc rules yet...alas more perusing of docs... =G= If you leave the scheduling to amanda, and not overpower her with the first disklist, you'll find that a good sized system can still be put on a single DDS2, 4 gig tape. I'm doing a 46 gig drive here on one tape a night. Amanda will adjust the schedule to level out the tape useage from night to night. Don't use hardware compression because that hides the tape size from amanda. Use software compression, which is usually much better at smunching tings anyway, and amanda who counts bytes going to the drive, will then know pretty exactly how much tape is available. Don't compress that which is already compressed, it will expand (usually). Label the tapes sequentialy, using a pattern you define in amanda.conf. See the current define in there now. Dumpcycle is how long amanda has to do a level 0 on everything in the disklist, '1 week' or '7 days' is typical. Motorcycle? I'm not sure amanda has that option, or even if I ever had a girl named Amanda on the princess pad. But they're fun, I put half a million+ miles on several down thru the years, at one point using one for a chair car for a couple of years, rain, snow or shine. Just make sure you've got a hard hat you'd trust your brains to, you never know when you might use it up. I used up 2 of them in 40 some years. Snell rated hats obviously. Tapecycle is how many tapes in the rotation, and one should have at least 2*runtapes*dumpcycle(in days) in the rotation. 3x is prefered by some including me in order to have at least 2 good fulls on tap if needed. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.14% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
