Re: tape pools, wrapping my mind around them

2018-11-15 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
You want 3 storage A vtape can only contains backup from one storage. You use the storage 'dump_selection' and the dumptype 'tag' to specify which dle go to that storage You could use a different pool for each storage. But using the same pool for all storage have a big benefits: - no need to

RE: tape pools, wrapping my mind around them

2018-11-15 Thread Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH)
On Behalf Of Jon LaBadie Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2018 3:25 PM To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: tape pools, wrapping my mind around them ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails. I currently have 240

tape pools, wrapping my mind around them

2018-11-15 Thread Jon LaBadie
I currently have 240 Vtapes in a single changer. Suppose I have 3 "departments", sales, research, and support. Could I create 3 dumptype definitions so that all "sales" DLEs are backed up to a tape pool consisting of vtapes 1-80, "research" to vtapes 81-160, and "support" to vtapes 161-240? If