Re: vault from aggregate changer to tape

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Am 2017-11-27 um 14:43 schrieb Winston Sorfleet:
I've been having a devil of a time trying to get a similar configuration 
working since 3.4.5. Could you post a copy of your working config?


I could but I would prefer to maybe start some kind of howto or 
collection of examples that might go into the docs.


There are many bits of knowledge spread over dozens of mails in the 
mailing list ... maybe we could get some document ready with stuff like 
that? I will think about the best way to start that. A file in my 
amanda-fork on github?


Stefan

Re: vault from aggregate changer to tape

[Winston Sorfleet]

I've been having a devil of a time trying to get a similar configuration 
working since 3.4.5.  Could you post a copy of your working config?

On November 27, 2017 7:02:04 AM EST, "Stefan G. Weichinger"  
wrote:
>Am 2017-11-27 um 12:48 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau:
>> Stefan,
>> 
>> Which disk is UUID=5a5a9927-995f-4f0f-98ff-d222561f84ff, why amanda
>> can't mount it?
>
>I mentioned it: one external disk is attached, the other one is out of
>office. It can't be mounted because it is currently stored off-site.
>
>I agree: if I want to vault all FULLs from storage "vtape" I have to
>attach both drives at the same time ... for now it's testing and I play
>with only subsets (single servers/DLEs).
>
>> The 'No acceptable volumes found' message is from which storage? Are
>you
>> sure you have a tape in band that amanda can use?
>> You can run 'amcheck CONFIG -t -ostorage=band' to find it.
>
>ah, OK, it seems that my autolabel doesn't work (it didn't force
>writing
>the label over the "amtapetype"-label that was currently there).
>
>I had to label the tape in "band" first (manually via amlabel, wasn't
>done via autolabel) now my amvault command starts vaulting.
>
>Thanks for that.
>
>Suggestion: could there be additional info as maybe:
>
>storage "band": No acceptable volumes found
>
>?
>
>That would make things easier, right?
>
>thanks, regards, Stefan

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Re: vault from aggregate changer to tape

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Am 2017-11-27 um 12:48 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau:
> Stefan,
> 
> Which disk is UUID=5a5a9927-995f-4f0f-98ff-d222561f84ff, why amanda
> can't mount it?

I mentioned it: one external disk is attached, the other one is out of
office. It can't be mounted because it is currently stored off-site.

I agree: if I want to vault all FULLs from storage "vtape" I have to
attach both drives at the same time ... for now it's testing and I play
with only subsets (single servers/DLEs).

> The 'No acceptable volumes found' message is from which storage? Are you
> sure you have a tape in band that amanda can use?
> You can run 'amcheck CONFIG -t -ostorage=band' to find it.

ah, OK, it seems that my autolabel doesn't work (it didn't force writing
the label over the "amtapetype"-label that was currently there).

I had to label the tape in "band" first (manually via amlabel, wasn't
done via autolabel) now my amvault command starts vaulting.

Thanks for that.

Suggestion: could there be additional info as maybe:

storage "band": No acceptable volumes found

?

That would make things easier, right?

thanks, regards, Stefan

Re: vault from aggregate changer to tape

[Nathan Stratton Treadway]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 12:20:59 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> $  amvault  --fulls-only --src-storage vtape --dest-storage  band vtape
> --src-timestamp 20171110231503 server
> mount: can't find UUID=5a5a9927-995f-4f0f-98ff-d222561f84ff
> No acceptable volumes found

Off hand (without seeing the log files) I would guess that a "No
acceptable volumes found" message indicates that Amanda can't find a
volume it's willing to write to on the *destination* side of the vault
operation

Nathan



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Re: vault from aggregate changer to tape

[Jean-Louis Martineau]

Stefan,

Which disk is UUID=5a5a9927-995f-4f0f-98ff-d222561f84ff, why amanda 
can't mount it?

The 'No acceptable volumes found' message is from which storage? Are you 
sure you have a tape in band that amanda can use?
You can run 'amcheck CONFIG -t -ostorage=band' to find it.

Jean-Louis

On 27/11/17 06:20 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> I try to set up this:
>
> 1) storage "vtape" : an aggregate changer running 2 external disks
>
> plus : allow-missing-changer yes -> one external disk is out of the
> building ...
>
> 2) storage "band" : a tapedrive
>
> I want to transfer fulls from vtapes to tape, dryrun shows DLEs:
>
> $  amvault  --latest-fulls --src-storage vtape --dest-storage  band
> vtape  --src-timestamp 20171110231503 server --dry-run
> mount: can't find UUID=5a5a9927-995f-4f0f-98ff-d222561f84ff
>
> vtape-002-001 2 server /etc 20171110231503 0 1660.8408203125
> vtape-002-001 4 server /var 20171110231503 0 454266.641601562
> vtape-002-001 6 server alte_klienten 20171110231503 0 691883.500976562
> vtape-002-001 12 server daten_1 20171110231503 0 25933110.8994141
> vtape-002-001 14 server daten_2 20171110231503 0 24173246.1152344
>
> that vtape-002-001 is on the external disk which is currently attached,
> but without "dry-run" this fails:
>
> $  amvault  --fulls-only --src-storage vtape --dest-storage  band vtape
> --src-timestamp 20171110231503 server
> mount: can't find UUID=5a5a9927-995f-4f0f-98ff-d222561f84ff
> No acceptable volumes found
>
> To me it seems that amvault can't handle the fact that one of the two
> changers within tp-aggregate isn't attached?
>
> I think this should work, though.
>
> Jean-Louis?
>
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vault from aggregate changer to tape

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

I try to set up this:

1) storage "vtape" : an aggregate changer running 2 external disks

plus : allow-missing-changer yes -> one external disk is out of the
building ...

2) storage "band" : a tapedrive

I want to transfer fulls from vtapes to tape, dryrun shows DLEs:

$  amvault  --latest-fulls --src-storage vtape --dest-storage  band
vtape  --src-timestamp 20171110231503 server --dry-run
mount: can't find UUID=5a5a9927-995f-4f0f-98ff-d222561f84ff

vtape-002-001 2 server /etc 20171110231503 0 1660.8408203125
vtape-002-001 4 server /var 20171110231503 0 454266.641601562
vtape-002-001 6 server alte_klienten 20171110231503 0 691883.500976562
vtape-002-001 12 server daten_1 20171110231503 0 25933110.8994141
vtape-002-001 14 server daten_2 20171110231503 0 24173246.1152344

that vtape-002-001 is on the external disk which is currently attached,
but without "dry-run" this fails:

$  amvault  --fulls-only --src-storage vtape --dest-storage  band vtape
--src-timestamp 20171110231503 server
mount: can't find UUID=5a5a9927-995f-4f0f-98ff-d222561f84ff
No acceptable volumes found

To me it seems that amvault can't handle the fact that one of the two
changers within tp-aggregate isn't attached?

I think this should work, though.

Jean-Louis?