Thank you very much for your response, Stefan.

You mean, according to this updates, Amanda can store backup data not in a
single tape but in categorized tapes(storage) as user wants, right?

I will test about these features to verify the behavior.

Thanks again.

2017-01-05 1:36 GMT+09:00 Stefan G. Weichinger <[email protected]>:

> Am 2016-12-13 um 08:51 schrieb Chaerin Kim:
>
>> Hello.
>>
>> I have used Amanda 3.3.9 for backup.
>> But I heard Amanda 3.4.1 supports Rest API, so I tried this version.
>>
>> When I tested this version, I found a tapelist file format was changed.
>> There are additional features, such as pool, storage, etc.
>> I searched about these features, but there is little data and I couldn't
>> find example about this.
>> I want to know why this features are added, and what is the concept.
>>
>
> I share your wish for learning about these new terms and concepts.
> The man page for amanda.conf mentions them but doesn't really explain them
> or provide examples.
>
> So we can (a) ask Jean-Louis ;-) or (b) try and error a bit.
>
> *warning* : just guessing below
>
> For (b) I start with "amadmin config myconf" and find a block "DEFINE
> STORAGE myconf". As the manpage tells there is a default storage defined at
> least (implicitly). And you can define additional storages to make amanda
> store its dumps to.
>
> As far as I understand a key parameter might be "dump-selection": by
> setting that we can configure behavior like:
>
> put DLEs a,b,c to storage "one"
> put full dumps to storage "two"
> put incrementals of DLEs d,e,f to storage "three"
> etc
>
> right?
>
> Additional you have the vaulting pool(s) definition for amvault.
>
> Interesting features for bigger installations ... looking forward to some
> tests.
>
> Stefan
>
>

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