>I thought Amanda will ask for the oldest tape, but accepts any tape older >than tapecycle tapes. Additionally it will warn you in advance when it will >overwrite the newest full dump backup of some disk. >Are you sure it does accept almost any tape with this config? >(try "amcheck -s config")
Yes, all verified. Amcheck says the tape is incorrect, and amdump warns about the tape not being expected but goes ahead and runs anyway without further probs. The only refusal comes from trying to overwrite the most recently written tape. If dumpcycle is > 0 then overwrites appear to be not allowed for dumpcycle days. Note, I haven't comprehensively tested this last, as I've only had Amanda for 3 days so far. >There were little issues with "strategy noinc" resulting in only doing >those backups that had a full dump scheduled and skipping those that had >an incremental dump scheduled. I don't such a config, but I'm curious about >the result too. Hmmm, scratch that methinks. I note in the comments in the .conf file, that this is not implemented in this version. Back to dumpcycle=0, I guess. >"amadmin archive >no-reuse ARCHIVE-012", indicating to amanda that I do not want this particular >tape not to be reused anymore. Thanks for your time and the info. The above will do the job very nicely. Bryan Tonnet [EMAIL PROTECTED]
