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List:       amanda-users
Subject:    Re: How to manage changer stage with multiple configs
From:       Chris Miller <ctodd () netgate ! net>
Date:       2001-11-27 20:03:52
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You might consider telling amanda that it has a 1 tape changer (allows use
of amtape to see what's in the drive) and write a wrapper script to handle
your tape changer operations outside of amanda that keeps it's own state
file. Since the state of a one tape chnager will never change, amanda
won't have a problem. I prefer to fill the tapes as close to capacity as I
can, so I don't let amanda have a new tape until the holding disk is full.

Regards,
        Chris

Chris Miller
NetGate Internet

On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Michael D. Beynon wrote:

> I am trying to setup the obvious: full backup (say Friday) and
> incremental (Monday - Thursday).  I am using a tape changer (Sun
> StorEDGE L9) with DLT tapes.  I have mtx installed, thus am using the
> chg-zd-mtx glue script for controlling the robot.  This script
> maintains the changer state in /usr/local/etc/amanda/<cfgname>/...
> 
> My question is if I then create a new configname for the incremental
> backups, won't there be a state consistency problem between these two
> config dirs?  It seems like the state files should be common across
> all configs that use that changer.
> 
> Suggestions?
> 
> Mike
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