>Yes, but my holding-disk has 3500 Mb. The backups are 7-8 Gb. ... The backups are 7-8 GBytes when Amanda is writing to tape. If it detects the tape is bad (including just plain not being there :-) it will fall back to degraded mode and do less work.
That's not to say it will fit, but it's not as bad as you think. >... Is there a method for starting a cycle when i want???? And what would you want Amanda to do? It would essentially have to make up for the missing runs. Since you're skipping two runs, that would make the next run 20+ GBytes. Are your tapes that big? I agree with Joshua that the best approach is probably to let Amanda do what it can without a tape. But another approach would be to just change your crontab to not do the runs on the two missing days. The advantage to letting Amanda try is that you're likely to have some backups laying around if things go bad. I have a feeling you're also working under the impression particular tapes are used on particular days (e.g. the "Monday" tape is used on "Monday"). That's not a good way to work with Amanda. Much better is to just number the tapes and Amanda will pick the next one in sequence. It may be that under normal circumstances a particular tape gets used on a particular day, but when exceptions happen (as is coming up for you), Amanda will just slip the tape cycle to accommodate. John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
