> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
[mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org]
> On Behalf Of Hugh E Cruickshank
> Sent: May 27, 2009 22:57
> To: Amanda Users List
> Subject: How to define tape sequence
> 
> Amanda 2.6.1, RHEL 5.3
> 
> Hi All:
> 
> To start with I am new to Amanda so please be gentle<g>.
> 
> I have been successful at getting Amanda up and running with our HP
> MSL2024 LTO4 tape library. Where I am having problems is determining
> how to define the sequence in which the tapes will be written. I have
> spent the last several hours pouring over the documentation, the wiki,
> the man pages and numerous Goolge searches but the answer seems to be
> eluding me or I am just not seeing it (a very real possibility). Could
> someone give me a push (or maybe a hard shove) in the right direction?
> 
> Here is some background info (if required):
> 
> 1. We are planning on doing a nightly full backup of selected
>    directories. A single tape will be more that sufficient to hold
>    the data for the foreseeable future so spanning will not be
required.
>    I am more concerned with the automatic rotation of tapes.
> 
> 2. I created a single backup set (so far) as follows:
> 
>    amserverconfig DailySet1 --template tape-changer \
>    --tapedev /dev/nst0 --changerdev /dev/sg1 \
>    --mailto pgiadm AT forsoft DOT com \
>    --dumpcycle 0 --runspercycle 1 --tapecycle 2 --runtapes 1
> 
> 3. I changed the labelstr in the amanada.conf to:
> 
>    labelstr "^DS1-[0-9][0-9]*$"
> 
> 4. I labelled 5 tapes as follows:
> 
>    amlabel DailySet1 DS1-01 slot 1
>    amlabel DailySet1 DS1-02 slot 2
>    amlabel DailySet1 DS1-03 slot 3
>    amlabel DailySet1 DS1-04 slot 4
>    amlabel DailySet1 DS1-05 slot 5
> 
> 5. I set the disklist to (to start with):
> 
>    pgips2 /home user-tar
> 
> 6. My first amdump started with tape 5 and then the next went to 1
>    and then back to 5 and now just uses 5 (and does not dump
anything).
> 
> I suspect that part of my problem (probably a large part) is
conceptual.
> We have plenty of tape and processing time and I was looking for a
full
> backup on each amdump execution. I am not really interested in doing
> full and incremental backups but I am aware that this contrary to the
> "amanda" way of doing things. That being said, I do not really see the
> need within our setup for incremental backups. The largest part of our
> backups will be large databases which will be included in each and
> every incremental so why bother with incrementals? I know that is
> sacrilege but, hey, I am an all or nothing sort of guy<g> (and getting
> rather "punchy" at the end of another 12-14 hour day).
> 
> But I see I have digressed. Back to my original question: How do
> define the sequence tapes are to be used?


I don't know about setting a specific sequence, but I ran into a similar
issue with my Dell library; the problem was that I hadn't defined the
beginning and end slots for the config in changer.conf.  Once I did that
and used amtape to set slot 1 as the current slot, all was well.


> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Regards, Hugh
> 
> --
> Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com

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