>What I'm looking to do is something somwhat automatic - so I don't have to >do this every four days. I.e. is there a way to tell amdump to "overwrite" >a backup tape?
Ummm, yes. :-). Your tapecycle value tells Amanda how many tapes it has to work with. Don't lie to Amanda :-). If you have 10 tapes (for instance), set tapecycle to 10. After the 10th one is used, it will overwrite the first. >If so, then I wouldn't have to do all this amlabel crap. ... You should only have to amlabel your tapes once. If you're having to do it more than once (other than initial screwing around and testing) something else is wrong. >Also, is there a >way to get amanda to make .tar.gz's instead of its own format? ... No. But you can easily get back .tar.gz's from the tapes with amrestore (look at the -c option). >In addition, is there a way tt amanda to run several amandas at once? > >I'm backing up stuff thats on a slow connection, so I've got plenty of >bandwith.. Sine amanda does stuff sequentially, I'm stuck waiting 20 >minutes for some file to backup and im only using like uhm, 20k/s... So I >could be running 10 other amanda backups at teh same time .... Not sure what you mean by "sequentially". If you set inparallel to 8 (just to pick a number), Amanda (amdump) will run up to eight backups at the same time, subject to other constraints (maxdumps controls the number of dumps a single client can do, for instance). >Do I just make multiple confs and put them all in my crontabs? You could, but I'm not sure you need to resort to this yet. >cosimo John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
