Hello Gene,
Thanks for your 2 long mails. I would like to summarize my answers.
First of all, magically the backup tonight went well but don't ask me why!
Amcheck now reports "amcheck-server: slot 2: reading label: Numerical
argument out of domain" which means, there is a vtape but the label does not
match. This is correct, amanda will sort that out tonight.
I use 'this old version' of amanda on several SuSE Linux servers (9.1 to
10.0) and I try to use the same amanda version for clients and servers.
'never change a running system' you know ;-)
The chg-multi-vtapes-rait configuration is running perfectly, set-up and
maintained with the knowledge and examples of the amanda wiki and this list
:-)
The half mirrored rait backup goes to /amandatapes/daily/vtape[1-4]/data.
Yesterday (while all slots seemed to be empty) I tried an "amrestore -p
/amandatapes/daily/vtape4/data/00004.sebastian._samba_DLEname.0 | tar tv"
and it worked. So, I was sure to be able to restore if needed - even with
'empty slots'. The other half of the rait mirrored backup goes to the
physical tape.
I was also astonished about the looong access times to the changer vtapes
slots but - as said - now everything is fine again. I am just worried about
this event because I do not have any idea about the cause AND the magic
solution.
If I'll have something new to report I will do so.
Thanks again and best wishes
Uwe
On Thursday, November 30, 2006 10:46 PM Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> On Thursday 30 November 2006 16:11, Toomas Aas wrote:
> >Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> On Thursday 30 November 2006 08:19, Uwe M. Kaufmann wrote:
> >>> (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.5)
> >>> SuSE Linux 10.0
> >>
> >> Humm, and why is SuSE serving up such an old version of amanda?
> >> IIRC that version does not support vtapes (but somebody
> will correct
> >> me I'm sure), so I'm confused by the names below. And by your
> >> apparent use of the chg-multi utility with vtapes.
> Another example:
> >
> >Actually Amanda 2.4.5 does support vtapes. I have an Amanda config
> >currently running version 2.4.4 and using chg-multi, because chg-disk
> >didn't exist back when this setup went live, and chg-multi was a
> >commonly used workaround for working with vtapes. We're not
> all as up to
> >speed with latest Amanda versions as you are :)
>
> Chuckle, I guess I had that coming. I was never aware that chg-multi
> could be made to use vtapes. I assume it doesn't use the
> 'data' linkage
> then, but somehow uses the actual tape name given to the directory?
>
> OTOH, maybe its time it 'went live' with a newer version?
> IMO, the major
> problems over time that occur because of updated utilities
> are far more
> prevalent than problems with amanda itself. I give you the
> tar debacles
> for almost every new version since 1.13-25, although I used 1.15-1
> without any problems. And that's what FC6 installed, so its in use
> again.
>
> I was trying to use real (now that's an oxymoron when
> referring to DDS2
> tapes) tapes till about 2 years ago. In Seacrate changers.
>
> Thanks for clarifying that Toomas.
>
> --
> Cheers, Gene
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