Hi,
I'm thinking if i'm the only one who has met the following situation:
a customer of us has a server with amanda and 4 DDS-2 drives.
They have a bit an unusual backupprocedure for amanda:
every friday they do a fullbackup to 120meter (2GB native) tapes,
rotating through 4 sets of 4 tapes for every week of a month,
over the week only incrementals to 90meter (1GB native)tapes are done,
one tape used per day.
for archiv use over the year they do every last friday of the month
a fullbackup to 4 tapes, storing them for ever ( a few years at least ).
at the moment they fulls for the weekly backups only take about 2
and a half tape, but du to the expected growth of the data-volume to
backup and the lazines of the operators, they want to stick in 4 tapes
every friday, without having to search for the needed tapes.
Now my question:
would it be possible to implement a configparameter saying:
no matter how many tapes have been used by the backup, mark all 4
tapes in the drives as used, and search for the next backup after
the next 4 tapes?
if this could be done, how much work would it be?
Christoph
