How To:Using removable hard disk changers as Virtual tapes

New feature in amanda-3.3

Removable hard disks can be used as virtual tape. It is user responsibility to mount/umount the hard disk.

 autolabel "AMANDA-%%%" any
 meta-autolabel "META-%%%"
 define changer removable-disk {
    tpchanger "chg-disk:/amanda/diskchanger"
    property "NUM-SLOT" "4"
    property "AUTO-CREATE-SLOT" "yes"
    property "REMOVABLE" "yes"
 }
 tpchanger "removable-disk"

• Four slots (NUM-SLOT) is automatically created (AUTO-CREATE-SLOT) on each mounted disk.
• Each slot (autolabel) is labelled with a distinct label.
• The REMOVABLE property check that something is mounted.
• Each hard disk get a meta label. In the future, amanda will be able to ask to mount the disk with the meta label when it require a specific label.