* John R. Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 10:31:14AM -0500)
> >With that all said, he would like to be able to put ANY tape in the drive
> >and have it succeed, basicly ignoring the tape lables. ...
>
> Then I assume you're not going to be using incrementals but doing a full
> dump of everything every day, right? Because this won't work if there are
> incrementals. You'll end up clobbering something you need for a restore.
>
> In the extreme case, your boss wants to be able to use the same tape
> every day. To do that with Amanda, set dumpcycle to 0 and tapecycle
> to 1. You may have more tapes listed in tapelist (via amlabel) and,
> as I understand it, Amanda will accept any of them.
But you are seriously fucked if you have only one tape, and the disk you're
backing up dies while writing the current backup over the previous one.
I suggest a (smart-)moneky proof system,
simply labelling the tapes
*MONDAY*
*TUESDAY*
..
*FRIDAY*
and go with that.
Setting dumpcycle to 0 and tapecycle to 1 will ensure that it will write
on whatever tape is in the drive.
But clearly labelling them, and training people to put thet tape with the
current day in the tapedrive should minimize the risk of the above
scenario.
>
> >Richard G. Duvall
>
> John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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