Re: Best practise for archive tapes with vtapes?

2014-02-27 Thread Markus Iturriaga Woelfel
> > Can one amanda-config have two (or more) vaulting changers? > > S I don't see why not. You should be able to specify the proper changer in your amvault command line with --dst-changer. If you want to use more than one during the same vault run, I suppose you'll have to use something like

Re: Best practise for archive tapes with vtapes?

2014-02-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.02.2014 17:41, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > A script could check: if week-number is even, make sure to mount disk2 > ... if week-number is not even, mount disk1 ... > > disk1 contains vtapes 1-10 ... (as example), disk2 contains vtapes 11-20 > ... then amvault stuff from config daily to

Re: Best practise for archive tapes with vtapes?

2014-02-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.02.2014 19:03, schrieb Markus Iturriaga Woelfel: > Stefan, > >> Maybe someday you share your script? ;-) > > If I ever find the time to clean up the script, I'll be happy to > share it. Not sure how useful it'd be to others because it's specific > to our situation. Sometimes it already hel

Re: Best practise for archive tapes with vtapes?

2014-02-26 Thread Markus Iturriaga Woelfel
Stefan, > Maybe someday you share your script? ;-) If I ever find the time to clean up the script, I'll be happy to share it. Not sure how useful it'd be to others because it's specific to our situation. > > For my current job I need/should use external hdds as target media, so I > wonder if

Re: Best practise for archive tapes with vtapes?

2014-02-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.02.2014 15:31, schrieb Markus Iturriaga Woelfel: > Here is what we do: > > We use vtapes in our Amanda setup. I wrote a small script that finds > the most recent level 0 backups and uses amvault to dump those to > physical tapes. I run this once a month and then archive those tapes. > The sc

Re: Best practise for archive tapes with vtapes?

2014-02-26 Thread Markus Iturriaga Woelfel
Here is what we do: We use vtapes in our Amanda setup. I wrote a small script that finds the most recent level 0 backups and uses amvault to dump those to physical tapes. I run this once a month and then archive those tapes. The script was hacked together and if I get the time I'd like to chang

Re: Best practise for archive tapes with vtapes?

2014-02-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 21.02.2014 09:13, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > > What's the current best practise to somehow have archive "tapes" with > vtapes? > > A customer backs up to vtapes on a NAS and wants to have an additional > USB-driven hdd for archiving weekly/monthly dumps. > > How to achieve that? So amva

Best practise for archive tapes with vtapes?

2014-02-21 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
What's the current best practise to somehow have archive "tapes" with vtapes? A customer backs up to vtapes on a NAS and wants to have an additional USB-driven hdd for archiving weekly/monthly dumps. How to achieve that? Set up RAIT with two chg-disk-changers in it? Thanks for any pointers or