amadmin config-name no-reuse tape-name
that'll put a specific tape on hold until you release it and allow you to resequence the tapes without editing any of the amanda files. > Adolfo Manuel Pach�n Rodr�guez wrote: > > > Hi all: > > > > I have an HP24DAT SCSI over Linux RH 7.1. I want to backup the weekdays > > only, using 5+1 tapes. > > > > I've this in the amanda.conf: > > > > dumpcycle 7 > > runspercycle 5 > > tapecycle 6 > > > > The tapes are labeled: > > > > Daily-000 (monday) > > Daily-001 (tuesday) > > Daily-002 (wednesday) > > Daily-003 (thursday) > > Daily-004 (friday) > > Daily-005 (extra) > > > > What I want is this: > > > > For each day, use the Daily-00X tape. > > > > Today, thursday, I use the Daily-003 tape. With amdump Daily, I do the > > backup. But the report says this: > > > > These dumps were to tape Daily-003. > > The next tape Amanda expects to use is: Daily-006. > > > > This is my question. Why Daily-006? Why not the next tape is Daily-004? > > > > Thanks > > > > I don't think amanda works as you're expecting. You can only give amanda > a sequence of tapes, but not say "I want x tape on x day and y tape on y > day". Amanda will simply go through each tape in its list and use them > as needed. So your 000 tape will end up being used any day of the week. > > Of course, if you give amanda 10 tapes and do 5 backups in a week, > you'll always be using 0 and 6 on a Monday, 1 and 7 on a Tuesday. > > Also, in order to use them in sequence and not skip from 3 to 6, you > have to label them all in order. So if you labeled 0 through 5, let > amanda use 0 and 1, then labeled 6, amanda will expect the sequence to > be 0 1 6 2 3 4 5. > > I'm not sure how to change which tape amanda expects next, short of > removing the tapes using amrmtape and relabeling them. Edit the tapelist > file? Anyone else on the list have any answers? >
