Re: Is there a write-up on using amvault with an archive config?

I use amvault to tertiarary media (LTO-2, I am just a casual home user) 
while my main archive is VTL on a slow NAS.  I use cron, but obviously I 
could just run as-needed from the command line.

You're right, it is a bit hard to intuit, and I had to get some help 
from the community here as it is using overrides.

The command line I use is as follows:

/usr/sbin/amvault -q --latest-fulls --dest-storage "tape_storage" vtl

Where vtl is the config.  The key part is the "tape_storage" which 
refers to the appropriate vault-storage template in the amanda conf 
file.  E.g.

storage "vtl"
vault-storage "tape_storage"

define storage "tape_storage" {
     erase-on-failure yes
     policy "HP_Robot"
     runtapes 1
     set-no-reuse no
     tapedev "LTO-2"
     tapetype "LTO2"
     tapepool "$r"
     tpchanger "LTO-2"
     labelstr "Vault-[1-7]"
     autolabel "Vault-%" any
}

define changer LTO-2 {
     tpchanger "chg-single:/dev/nst0"
     device-property "LEOM" "TRUE"
}

define tapetype LTO2 {
    comment "HP Ultrium 448, hardware compression off"
    length 193024 mbytes
    filemark 0 kbytes
    speed 20355 kps
}

Obviously for you it will be simpler since you don't have to engage the 
SCSI subsystem and define actual tapetype parameters or fiddle with 
blocksizes.  And you're not limited to a single "tape".

On 2022-03-21 15:46, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> *** Apologies if a near duplicate has been posted ***
> *** I initially submitted it with the wrong email ***
>
>
> Amazing, I've used amanda for about 25 years and never set up
> an archive config nor used amvault.  No time like the present
> as I setup a new server with increased capacity.
>
> I don't want an archive config that does periodic massive
> dumps.  Instead I'd prefer that on-demand I could copy a
> level 0 DLE to the archive in such a way that amrecover/
> amrestore could use the archive config.  Both the source
> and the archive destination would be vtapes but on
> different drives in different housings.
>
> I "think" that amvault would be the appropriate tool.
> If not, correct my error please.
>
> Has anyone done a write-up on setting up and using such
> a scheme?
>
> Thanks,
> Jon
>