Re: amanda scripts

Orion Poplawski <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.archivers.amanda.devel,gmane.comp.archivers.amanda.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 11/04/2015 06:51 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
> Hi Orion,
> 
> I appreciate that you post your scripts, it allow me to see how user use
> amanda and how I can improve it.
> 
> On 03/11/15 06:22 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>> In case anyone finds these useful:
>>
>> https://git.nwra.com/nwra-it/amanda/tree/master
>>
>> This repository contains various scripts in use at NWRA to drive their backups
>> done with Amanda. They are:
>>
>>      amdump.sh - Drive the week-night backup set Data
>>      amdiskdump.sh - Drive the week-end backup set Offsite that does directly
>> to disk.
>>      amdiskflush - transform holding disk into vtape disk
>>      fullindex - Generates a set of full index files
>>      vault - Copies selected full backups to long-term storage
>>
>> Most of these are hopelessly tied to our configuration, but might give people
>> ideas.  I would still like to get amdiskflush rewritten using the modern perl
>> apis as it seems like maybe the only candidate for general use.  Perhaps
>> amanda though will grow the ability to do parallel dumps directly to vtape
>> someday.
> 
> You can:
>   max-dle-by-volume 1
>   taper-parallel-write 10  #same value as inparallel
>   runtapes 100 # at least the number of dles
> and set 'holdingdisk no' in the dumptype
> 
> It use a different vtapes slot for each dle.

That seems unwieldy at best, but thanks for the suggestion.


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Orion Poplawski
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