On Tuesday 26 March 2002 07:06 am, Jes�s Moya wrote: >Hi!. I have a question about backup cycles in amanda. We have a > one week dumpcycle, with 5 tapes (one per day) and with 5 runs > of amdump. But this week in my country there are two holiday > days, Thursday and Friday. We aren't going to make a backup > these two days. Then, the next Monday, amanda demands the > fourth tape???. Or we can use the first tape and start a new > amdump cycle?
That is not the most dependable backup schema. You should have at least twice the number of tapes as there are days in your dumpcycle. I use 7 day dumpcycle, and 20 tapes, so even if a dump is defective, I still have undamaged full backups available. In your case I'd assume that cron is driving amdump. I'd let it go ahead and use the holding disk those 2 days, and flush to tape the first thing the next working day, one flush per tape so that the tapes stay in order etc. amflush will detect that there are more than one days dumps in the holding disk, and you can then give it the 'a' argument for the first catchup tape, thereby keeping things in order. Get some more tapes and add them to your tapecycle. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 98.7+% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a hillbilly
