If I understand what you're doing, you never re-use a tape that you've made a full backup on, right?
It also appears that you're using only one configuration to do all of your backups.
If that is the case, and you want to use a new tape each Friday, the command you're looking for is `amadmin YOURCONFIG no-reuse YOURTAPE`, where YOURCONFIG is the name of your AMANDA configuration, and YOURTAPE is the name of the tape you used on Friday, and will not re-use.
This will tell AMANDA that it should no longer consider that tape as part of your active tape rotation, and you will be able to use a new tape instead of your Monday tape.
BTW, if you ever choose to recycle that tape, you can undo the 'no-reuse' option with 'reuse'.
If this is not what you're trying to do, please post more details to the list and we'll take another swipe at it.
-----Original Message-----
From: Philippe Dogliani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 8:03 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Amanda.conf problems
Hello,
Well I am going to try to explain my problem:
On my sytem amanda is performing incremental backup
every monday, tuesday, wednesday and thursday nights
and a full backup is done every friday nights.
I got a pool of 16 tapes (4 weeks) for the incremental
and every friday morning I put a new tape for the full backup.
My problem is that since several weeks, every friday
it asks me for the monday night tape instead of a new one
by changing in amanda.conf runspercycle 16 to runspercycle 20
and tapecycle 16 to tapecycle 20, it is ok
But then on monday morning it ask me for a new tape instead
of the monday night tape, by changing again
runspercycle 20 to runspercycle 16 and tapecycle 20 to tapecycle 16
it is ok but the on the next friday the problem happens again...
I don't know why
Does someone can help me on that
Thanks a lot
Best regards
Philippe
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