Wow, I'll go through it as soon as I can.
Thank you very much for now exuvo, very appreciated!
On Thu, 2023-05-18 at 12:13 +0200, Exuvo wrote:
> Here is the relevant part of my config with multiple separated tapes
> (all LTO5 in my case) in the same MSL2024.
> This relies on you having labeled the tapes reasonably as it looks
> like labelstr can not match the LTO type.
> I do not use autolabeling, only manual labeling with a script i run
> when i put in a new batch of tapes.
>
> labeling script for the box of A***** tapes i have, you can probably
> modify this to put it in the correct storage pool based on LTO type:
> tapes=`mtx -f /dev/tape/by-id/scsi-DEC8320699 status | grep "Storage
> Element" | grep "Full" | cut -d " " -f 10 | cut -d "=" -f2 | grep -E
> "^A[0-9]{5}"`
> for tape in $tapes; do
> echo -n "Found archive tape $tape"
> new=`grep -c ${tape::-2} /etc/amanda/archive/tapelist`
> if [ "$new" -eq 0 ]; then
> echo -n ". New tape adding.. "
> sudo -u amanda amlabel --barcode "$tape" -f archive "${tape::-
> 2}"
> fi
> done
>
> shared amanda conf:
> define tapetype LTO5 {
> comment "LTO-5"
> length 1400 gbytes # for scheduling only
> speed 140000 kps # unused
> blocksize 1024 kbytes # optimizing-the-tape-speed.pdf suggest
> 1MB, manual suggests 256KB. default 32KB
> }
>
> weekly conf for 10 rotating tapes:
> define policy retention {
> retention-tapes 5 tapes
> retention-days 0
> retention-recover 1 week
> # retention-recover 0
> retention-full 0
> }
>
> define storage backup-storage {
> policy "retention"
> tapepool "rotating"
> tpchanger "MSL2024"
> runtapes 2 # max number of tapes used in a single run of amdump
> tapetype "LTO5"
> labelstr "^ROT[0-9]{2,3}$" # label constraint regex: all tapes
> must match
> taperscan "lexical"
> }
> storage "backup-storage"
>
> yearly conf with single use box of tapes:
> define policy retention {
> retention-tapes 10 tapes
> retention-days 0
> retention-recover 0 week
> retention-full 300
> }
>
> define storage archive-storage {
> # policy "retention"
> tapepool "ironmountain"
> tpchanger "MSL2024"
> runtapes 10 # max number of tapes used in a single run of amdump
> tapetype "LTO5"
> labelstr "^A[0-9]{5}$" # label constraint regex: all tapes must
> match
> taperscan "lexical"
> }
> storage "archive-storage"
>
> Anton "exuvo" Olsson
> [email protected]
>
> On 2023-05-17 16:06, ASV wrote:
> > That's correct, all drives are LTO8, but not all tapes. And no,
> > there
> > is no definition of any kind for slot positioning of the LTO7 right
> > now.
> >
> > Thanks for your reply.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 2023-05-16 at 16:48 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> > > Am 16.05.23 um 16:34 schrieb ASV:
> > > > Thanks exuvo, I'll try to dig a bit in that direction even
> > > > though I
> > > > was
> > > > expecting some built-in functionality for that.
> > > Are the LTO7-tapes always in defined slots?
> > >
> > > As far as I understand all *drives* are LTO8, but not all *tapes*
> > > ?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
