Re: tapes and external disks: how to combine all this

2016-07-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 04:20:51PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 2016-07-13 um 16:12 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: > > > amanda detect the disks via the meta label. > > The 'changerfile' must be located on the disk,it is where the meta label > > for the disk is written. > > ok, I have >

Re: tapes and external disks: how to combine all this

2016-07-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2016-07-13 um 20:32 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: amanda do a 'mount /mnt/diskchanger' If you can't configure the system to do as amanda expect, then you must do the mount yourself. You can make a script that symlink /mnt/diskchanger to the mount point. That feature could be added to the di

Re: looking for tapes too long

2016-07-13 Thread Debra S Baddorf
> On Jul 13, 2016, at 3:52 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Am 2016-07-11 um 18:29 schrieb Debra S Baddorf: > >>> Asked in general: >>> >>> is it recommended or necessary to run "amtape $myconf update" every >>> time the admin loads the library's magazines with fresh tapes? >>> >> >> I’ve

Re: tapes and external disks: how to combine all this

2016-07-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2016-07-13 um 16:12 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: > amanda detect the disks via the meta label. > The 'changerfile' must be located on the disk,it is where the meta label > for the disk is written. ok, I have autolabel "$m-%%%" any meta-autolabel "$c-%%%" define changer removable-disk {

Re: tapes and external disks: how to combine all this

2016-07-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2016-07-13 um 15:56 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: > On 13/07/16 08:39 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> Am 2016-07-13 um 11:10 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> >>> Would RAIT make sense here? >>> Should I amvault dumps from here to there? >>> How to deal with vtapes "not attached"? >> Found thi

Re: tapes and external disks: how to combine all this

2016-07-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2016-07-13 um 15:13 schrieb Cuttler, Brian R. (HEALTH): > Stefan, > > You want to alternate the thumb drive by weeks, but leave both installed? > > A properly constructed cron? > > # amdump -o tapedev= Only one drive attached, the other off-site.

Re: tapes and external disks: how to combine all this

2016-07-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2016-07-13 um 11:10 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Would RAIT make sense here? > Should I amvault dumps from here to there? > How to deal with vtapes "not attached"? Found this: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Using_removable_hard_drive_as_Virtual_tapes What is a removable hard disk

tapes and external disks: how to combine all this

2016-07-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
I have to configure the following setup and would like to hear your recommendations or thoughts: amanda-3.3.9 on a small but solid server, dumping backups to a single HP-DAT-160 tape drive. Yes, old/small/slow. So the customer asked if we could play it cheap and buy 2 external USB-disks (2 TB si

Re: looking for tapes too long

2016-07-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2016-07-11 um 18:29 schrieb Debra S Baddorf: >> Asked in general: >> >> is it recommended or necessary to run "amtape $myconf update" every >> time the admin loads the library's magazines with fresh tapes? >> > > I’ve found it not necessary. As long as the machine has SEEN those > tapes be