You're right. I think it's better to work with amanda numbering the tapes with labels like 1, 2, 3, etc, and not with Monday, Tuesday, etc. I have already considered this option, but we want to be sure of all possibilities, and the option of labelling tapes with the names of the days of the week was one of them. But the second option is better, one tape, one date. It's good....
Well, thanks to everybody, thanks to amanda developers, at least, amanda is working correctly in our system, a small LAN with GNU/Linux Debian. Free software is always the best option. John R. Jackson wrote: >>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] > >
