Hi, I have been happily running with my current config for over a year:
Equipment: ADIC 12-tape DDS-2 autoloader Software: Amanda 2.4.2p2 on FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE dumpcycle 7 days runspercycle 7 tapecycle 11 tapes runtapes 1 (I only have 11 tapes in the magazine because when I had a cleaning tape in the 12th slot, amanda (or my changer, not sure which) would get confused every time it got inserted (during a tape scan, for example)) I'm about to add a lot more data to back up, which will probably make me start needing runtapes 2 (using jrj's gtar-wrapper.sh to split into smaller backup images...thanks John!). Assuming I put another tape in the empty slot to fill it up, will I need to reduce my runspercylce to 6 since runspercycle*runtapes would be greater than the number of tapes in my magazine? If I were to bump runtapes up to 2 (and bring runspercycle down to 6) what would need to happen as far as which tapes are in the magazine in which order? Would it still use my currently-configured ConfigName-000 to ConfigName-010 tapes, or would I need to do something like amadmin rmtape the last 5 tapes and label 6 new tapes in between the first 5? I guess with my data it isn't CRITICAL that I don't lose any backups in this process (i.e. starting over) but since I find it important enough to back up in the first place, it'd be nice if it could happen that way :) Oh, and as an unrelated question since I'm posting anyway, why is there a compiled-in configuration name if it's mandatory to specify the config on (almost) every tool's command line anyway? Just curious. Thanks in advance! -Paul -- [Paul D. Schmidt...........][[EMAIL PROTECTED]] [Release Engineer..........][[EMAIL PROTECTED]] [Xtime, Inc................][........http://www.xtime.com] "One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them." --Anonymous
