On 2008-06-23 13:43, Johan Booysen wrote:
Is there anyone who is actually using chg-manual for their Amanda setup,
who would be willing to give me an example of their config files, such
as amanda.conf and changer.conf (changerfile parameter)?
Can't help with chg-manual, but...
I avoid the use of chg-manual by having a large holdingdisk (4 disks
500GB each in raid5).
I set "maxdumpsize" to a value large enough to dump what is needed
in the run (800 Gbyte currently).
For my archive run (full dumps only on weekends), I have two LTO2
tapedrives (using chg-multi to emulate a changer with 2 tapes), but
the total backup volume now spans 5 tapes.
The first two tapes are written during the normal dump during
the weekend.
On monday morning I insert the next two tapes, and run amflush.
Somewhere early afternoon, I get a mail from amanda saying still
some files are left on holdingdisk, so I insert the next tape
and run amflush once again for last bits.
Works good enough for me.
And does not need manual intervention DURING a backup, like chg-manual
does.
I prefer having 2 tapedrives, instead of one (usually expensive)
changer. That way i'm not completely blocked when a tapedrive needs
repair.
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