From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 4 22:14:36 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B21D637B401 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 22:14:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from sleepy.wojomedia.com (sleepy.wojomedia.com [216.107.102.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D186643E4A for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 22:14:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tim@sleepy.wojomedia.com) Received: (qmail 3628 invoked by uid 1000); 5 Jan 2003 06:14:33 -0000 Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 00:14:33 -0600 From: Tim To: Brad Knowles Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup Solutions Message-ID: <20030105061433.GA3566@sleepy.wojomedia.com> References: <3E0DC536.8010001@slaudiovis.org> <3E0EBC49.86AD7E28@mindspring.com> <3E0FF119.7792A270@mindspring.com> <20030101124419.GA14165@sleepy.wojomedia.com> <20030105051402.GA2710@sleepy.wojomedia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 11:52:27PM -0600, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 11:14 PM -0600 2003/01/04, Tim wrote: > > >> In what way? How does it keep a library of what tape is used for > >> what content? > > > > RTFM at www.amanda.org. > > There doesn't appear to be much of anything useful there. Nor at > . There's a tarball, but > not much more. Sorry, I don't have a machine with Amanda at the moment but I first used stackers with Amanda at 1996. Download the tarball and look at the manpages. > >> How does it keep track of how many times a particular > >> tape has been used, so that you know when it should be retired? > > > > This has nothing to do stackers and libraries. Even if you have a > > single drive, you might want this ability anyway. I don't recall off > > the top of my head whether Amanda does this - it's certainly trivial > > to add a small script to look at the tape usage everyday and make > > this computation, if Amanda doesn't do this already. > > No, I submit that these things do have to do with stackers and > libraries. It doesn't do you much good to use a stacker if the only > support is "eject this tape and give me the next one" when you get to > the end of the stack of tapes, and all the ones that have been > ejected so far have fallen onto the floor. A backup system requires > more intelligence regarding tape management. Amanda's planner is smarter than that. Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message