Here is a Quick Setup for configuration with a virtual tape changer, emulating tapes on disk:
1. Please use the amserverconfig to create a basic 25 tape virtual tape library with a config name "DailySet1"
-bash-3.00$ amserverconfig DailySet1 --template harddisk Logging to /tmp/amanda/amserverconfig.20060421150051.debug /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists directory exists /etc/amanda/DailySet1/amanda.conf created and updated /etc/amanda/template.d/dumptypes exists, new copy in /etc/amanda/template.d/dumptypes.N /etc/amanda/template.d/tapetypes exists, new copy in /etc/amanda/template.d/tapetypes.N /etc/amanda/DailySet1/advanced.conf created and updated curinfo and index directory created tapelist file created disklist file created creating vtape directory amlabel vtapes DONE.
2. Edit the /etc/amanda/DailySet1/amanda.conf to make some changes contingent on your environment and your scheduling:
org "DailySet1" # your organization name for reports mailto "amandabackup" # space separated list of operators at your site dumpcycle 1 week # the number of days in the normal dump cycle runspercycle 5 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days
3. Edit the /etc/amanda/DailySet1/disklist file to add the client, file system and dumptype information:
clent_host_name /boot comp-user-tar
4. In order to test your new configuration please run this command:
-bash-3.00$ amcheck DailySet1 Amanda Tape Server Host Check ----------------------------- slot 25: read label `DailySet1-25', date `20060421151922' slot 1: read label `DailySet1-1', date `X' NOTE: skipping tape-writable test Tape DailySet1-1 label ok Server check took 0.388 seconds Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check -------------------------------- Client check: 1 host checked in 0.058 seconds, 0 problems found (brought to you by Amanda 2.5.0)
5. You are not ready to run a test backup using amdump:
amdump DailySet1
6. You should now get a confirmation e-mail that you backup was completed and you can also look at the log file on the server:
-bash-3.00$ pwd /etc/amanda/DailySet1 -bash-3.00$ cat log.20060421151922.0 DISK planner clent_host_name /boot START planner date 20060421151922 START driver date 20060421151922 INFO planner Adding new disk clent_host_name:/boot. STATS driver startup time 0.077 FINISH planner date 20060421151922 time 0.131 START taper datestamp 20060421151922 label DailySet1-25 tape 0 SUCCESS dumper clent_host_name /boot 20060421151922 0 [sec 0.778 kb 2922 kps 3754.1 orig-kb 3630] SUCCESS taper clent_host_name /boot 20060421151922 0 [sec 0.823 kb 2976 kps 3612.5 {wr: writers 93 rdwait 0.783 wrwait 0.037 filemark 0.000}] INFO taper tape DailySet1-25 kb 2976 fm 1 [OK] FINISH driver date 20060421151922 time 3.764