Re: Can AMANDA be configured "per client"?

2018-11-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 09.11.18 um 06:19 schrieb Nathan Stratton Treadway: > So, you were following the the instructions found in the "Using the new > chg-disk:' section of the How_To:Set_Up_Virtual_Tapes wiki page that > Stefan mentioned earlier in this thread, right? > >

Re: Can AMANDA be configured "per client"?

2018-11-08 Thread Olivier
> In your case, though (i.e. with a fixed set of always-available slot > directories), it certainly makes sense to set up an obvious 1-1 mapping > between labels and slots, so that you don't have to think about or go > hunting to figure out which vtape holds a particular label. Amanda > won't

Re: Can AMANDA be configured "per client"?

2018-11-08 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 11:23:44 -0800, Chris Miller wrote: > So, now I have a couple of "clean-up" questions to conclude this > thread: vtape labels: Are these just an artifact of the tape heritage, > meaning, How is the label any more restrictive/protective than the > path to and filename of

Re: Can AMANDA be configured "per client"?

2018-11-08 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 10:28:06 -0800, Chris Miller wrote: > Hi Nathan, > > > A little later I will look for a reference to documentation on this, but > > in short: I believe the issue is that you are mixing the *name of the > > subdirectory* and the *amanda label of on the vtape*. > > It may

Re: Can AMANDA be configured "per client"?

2018-11-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 08 November 2018 14:23:44 Chris Miller wrote: > Hi Folks, > > My thanks to the guys that helped me. You know who you are -- Austin, > Gene, Stefan, Nathan. > > My problem with vtapes was that the name of the slots, "slot..." was > not arbitrary, or at least not arbitrary on my part. I

Re: Can AMANDA be configured "per client"?

2018-11-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 08 November 2018 12:40:37 Chris Miller wrote: > Hi Gene, > > > From: "Gene Heskett" > > To: "amanda-users" > > Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 12:16:36 PM > > Subject: Re: Can AMANDA be configured "per client"? >

Re: Can AMANDA be configured "per client"?

2018-11-08 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 11:23:44AM -0800, Chris Miller wrote: > Hi Folks, > > My thanks to the guys that helped me. You know who you are -- Austin, Gene, > Stefan, Nathan. > > My problem with vtapes was that the name of the slots, "slot..." was not > arbitrary, or at least not arbitrary on

Re: Can AMANDA be configured "per client"?

2018-11-08 Thread Chris Miller
Hi Folks, My thanks to the guys that helped me. You know who you are -- Austin, Gene, Stefan, Nathan. My problem with vtapes was that the name of the slots, "slot..." was not arbitrary, or at least not arbitrary on my part. I fixed that, and backups are happening as we speak. Beers all

Re: Can AMANDA be configured "per client"?

2018-11-08 Thread Debra S Baddorf
I’m sure the “cannot change the name of slots” stems from the original (and still in use here, at least) design for REAL tape drives. Tape libraries have slots, and you don’t get to change their names! But I’ve starred and saved that email for when I eventually want vtapes too. Now I

Re: Can AMANDA be configured "per client"?

2018-11-08 Thread Chris Miller
Hi Nathan, > A little later I will look for a reference to documentation on this, but > in short: I believe the issue is that you are mixing the *name of the > subdirectory* and the *amanda label of on the vtape*. It may look that way, but that is probably not what is happening. "Mail.TCLC.org"

Re: Can AMANDA be configured "per client"?

2018-11-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 08.11.18 um 18:52 schrieb Chris Miller: > Hi Stefan, > > > > *From: *"Stefan G. Weichinger" >  /etc should contain only config > In my case, I will have a set of config -- probably one for each client, > so

Re: Can AMANDA be configured "per client"?

2018-11-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 08.11.18 um 19:11 schrieb Nathan Stratton Treadway: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 09:40:37 -0800, Chris Miller wrote: >> bash-4.2$ ls -l /net/nas1/d0/Mail.TCLC.org/ >> : >> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 amandabackup disk 1110 Nov 8 09:12 state >> drwxr-xr-x. 2 amandabackup disk 0 Nov 5 10:17 vtape.00 >> : >>

Re: Can AMANDA be configured "per client"?

2018-11-08 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 09:40:37 -0800, Chris Miller wrote: > bash-4.2$ ls -l /net/nas1/d0/Mail.TCLC.org/ > : > -rwxr-xr-x. 1 amandabackup disk 1110 Nov 8 09:12 state > drwxr-xr-x. 2 amandabackup disk 0 Nov 5 10:17 vtape.00 > : > drwxr-xr-x. 2 amandabackup disk 0 Nov 5 10:17 vtape.62 > >

Re: Can AMANDA be configured "per client"?

2018-11-08 Thread Chris Miller
Hi Stefan, > From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" > To: "Chris Miller" , "amanda-users" > Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2018 2:01:04 AM > Subject: Re: Can AMANDA be configured "per client"? > > You are free to do as you like but I recomm

Re: Can AMANDA be configured "per client"?

2018-11-08 Thread Chris Miller
Hi Gene, > From: "Gene Heskett" > To: "amanda-users" > Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 12:16:36 PM > Subject: Re: Can AMANDA be configured "per client"? > A few questions here: > How did you build amamda? [here, as the user amanda, always c

Re: sharing scripts (was: Can AMANDA be configured "per client"?)

2018-11-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 08 November 2018 07:40:29 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 08.11.18 um 12:46 schrieb Gene Heskett: > > On Thursday 08 November 2018 05:02:30 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > > > For those who might be interested, the link on my web page that > > leads to "Genes-os9-stf", now has a new

Re: sharing scripts (was: Can AMANDA be configured "per client"?)

2018-11-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 08.11.18 um 13:56 schrieb Chris Nighswonger: > Why not form a document git repo to house just Amanda docs? Sure, why not ... I just want to avoid creating something noone contributes to. Let's collect some opinions, decide and then collect knowhow ;-)

Re: sharing scripts (was: Can AMANDA be configured "per client"?)

2018-11-08 Thread Chris Nighswonger
Why not form a document git repo to house just Amanda docs? Kind regards, Chris On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 7:45 AM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Am 08.11.18 um 12:46 schrieb Gene Heskett: > > On Thursday 08 November 2018 05:02:30 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > > > For those who might be

Re: sharing scripts (was: Can AMANDA be configured "per client"?)

2018-11-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 08.11.18 um 12:46 schrieb Gene Heskett: > On Thursday 08 November 2018 05:02:30 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > For those who might be interested, the link on my web page that leads > to "Genes-os9-stf", now has a new readme for GenesAmandaHelper, and a > fresh backup of that whole thing as

Can AMANDA be configured "per client"?

2018-11-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 07.11.18 um 18:25 schrieb Chris Miller: > Hi Austin, > > Thanks very much. Your comments have been very helpful, and I appreciate > the obviously considerable amount of time you spent to help me. I'm much > farther along on this project as a result. I have no idea how I'm going > to verify

Re: Can AMANDA be configured "per client"?

2018-11-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 07 November 2018 15:16:36 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 07 November 2018 12:25:50 Chris Miller wrote: > > Hi Austin, > > > > Thanks very much. Your comments have been very helpful, and I > > appreciate the obviously considerable amount of time you spent to > > help me. I'm much

Re: Can AMANDA be configured "per client"?

2018-11-07 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 09:25:50 -0800, Chris Miller wrote: > AmCheck tells me that I only have one problem. I think AMANDA can't > find the vtapes, so I need to learn What is the error you get from amacheck? Nathan

Re: Can AMANDA be configured "per client"?

2018-11-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 07 November 2018 12:25:50 Chris Miller wrote: > Hi Austin, > > Thanks very much. Your comments have been very helpful, and I > appreciate the obviously considerable amount of time you spent to help > me. I'm much farther along on this project as a result. I have no idea > how I'm

Re: Can AMANDA be configured "per client"?

2018-11-07 Thread Chris Miller
Hi Austin, Thanks very much. Your comments have been very helpful, and I appreciate the obviously considerable amount of time you spent to help me. I'm much farther along on this project as a result. I have no idea how I'm going to verify that everything is working the way I expect it to

Re: Can AMANDA be configured "per client"?

2018-11-05 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 11/5/2018 1:05 PM, Chris Miller wrote: Hi Folks, I have four servers, henceforth AMANDA clients, that I need to backup and a lot of NAS space available. I'd like to configure AMANDA to treat each of the four AMANDA clients as if it were the only client, meaning each client should have

Can AMANDA be configured "per client"?

2018-11-05 Thread Chris Miller
Hi Folks, I have four servers, henceforth AMANDA clients, that I need to backup and a lot of NAS space available. I'd like to configure AMANDA to treat each of the four AMANDA clients as if it were the only client, meaning each client should have it's own configuration which includes location