Hello Denise,
Denise Ives wrote:
> How can I identify amanda tapes by level of dump? I can label a tape
> that had a full dump on Nov1 as daily111 but I can't label a tape
> that had a full dump on Nov 24th as daily1124.........
The short answer is: You can't, because amanda doesn't work that way.
I just label my tapes sequentially eg. DailySet1.000 DailySet1.001
DailySet1.002. I like to have the name of the dump configuration in the
label to avoid confusion because I have more than one dump config.
Restoring files is not a problem because "amrecover" or "amadmin config
find" will tell you which tapes you need to load to restore files.
Once you have all of the tapes that you want in your cycle labeled,
"amcheck" will tell you which tape you need to load next, or you can use
"amadmin config tape" to find out which tape to use.
There will be a mix of full and incremental dumps on each tape because
the goal of amanda is to balance the load on the network so that it is
about the same for every run. Eventually, you will be recycling tapes,
in which case the date will no longer be valid, or you would have to
"remove" the tape and label it again which is an unnecessary pain. That
is unless this is a special dump cycle with tapes that you will never
overwrite.
You could hypothetically set up a separate dump config just for full
dumps but I don't think it's worth it--I tried to do it once and found
that it was far more of a pain than it was worth. I've found that it's
much easier and better to just let amanda do its thing instead of trying
to second guess it.
--
"Jonathan F. Dill" ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
CARB Systems and Network Administrator
Home Page: http://www.umbi.umd.edu/~dill
