Hi Jon, thanks for the reply.
On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 16:20, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>
> You have 11 machines, the tape server and 10 clients. Say on average each
> has 4 file systems. You would then have 44 items (host/filesystem) to backup.
> These would each be listed in a file called "disklist".
So where, if at all, does this "disklist" file get referenced in the
amanda.conf? And where should it live?
> Backups, called dumps regardless of the backup program (dump or tar) are
> performed at "levels". A full dump (everything on a disklist entry) is a
> level 0 (zero). Others levels are known as incrementals, level 1 means
> everything changed since the last level 0. Level 2 dumps are everything
> changed since the last level 1.
Gotcha -- that all makes sense. But in what instance would one want to
do a level 2 as opposed to just a level 1?
> All this info is collected in a file called amanda.conf.
Here's where I'm stuck now. As I'm just beginning, my test amanda.conf
configuration is as follows:
tpchanger "chg-manual" # This will hopefully change after testing
tapedev "/dev/sg0"
tapetype DAT
changerfile "/etc/amanda/DailySet1/changer.conf"
And here's my changer.conf:
number_configs 1
eject 0 # Tapedrives need an eject command
sleep 90 # Seconds to wait until the tape gets ready
cleanmax 100 # How many times could a cleaning tape get used
changerdev /dev/sg0
#
# Next comes the data for drive 0
#
config 0
drivenum 0
dev /dev/nst0
# dev /dev/ns0
scsitapedev /dev/sg0
startuse 0 # The slots associated with the drive 0
enduse 7 #
statfile /etc/amanda/DailySet1/tape0-slot # The file where the
actual slot is stored
cleancart 8 # the slot where the cleaningcartridge for drive
0 is located
cleanfile /etc/amanda/DailySet1/tape0-clean # The file where the
cleanings are recorded
usagecount /etc/amanda/DailySet1/totaltime
tapestatus /etc/amanda/DailySet1/tapestatus # here will some status
infos be stored
#labelfile /etc/amanda/DailySet1/labelfile # Use this if you have
an barcode reader
But when I run 'amcheck -s DailySet1', I get this error:
Holding disk /backup/amanda: 12891648 KB disk space available, using
7771648 KB
amcheck-server: could not get changer info: badly formed result from
changer: "/usr/lib/amanda/chg-manual: number_configs: command not found"
I have no idea what that means, but there really is no command called
number_configs on this box.
I've tried changing tpchanger to chg-scsi and chg-multi (as I really
don't know which one I'll want to be using in the future), but haven't
had any success with those either.
> With this as a starting point, get the source code, and in a directory
> called docs are many information documents. An important one is INSTALLATION.
> Also see the example amanda.conf file for all its comment remarks.
Thanks again, Jon -- you've helped a great deal already.
Cheers,
-Charlie
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