While we're on the topic, I have a theoretical question. We too are going to be splitting our backups in a very non-amanda way. The reason for us is that our incrementals tend to be small, so it's a waste of money for a small research group to do incrementals to the 100GB SDLT tape. Instead, incrementals (any day now) will be going to a 4GB DDS2 drive.
My question is, when for some reason amanda decides that a full backup needs to be done instead of an incremental, or when the incremental simply overflows the 4GB tape, what happens? Is there a way to tell amanda to dump the files to the SDLT drive instead? I would think I could just change the config file and amflush it. Or, should I just keep popping in DDS2 tapes until the incremental/untimely full backup finishes? -- Chris Dahn, SERG Code Ninja 3141 Chestnut St. Attn: MCS Department Philadephia, PA 19104 Office: 215.895.0203 Fax: 215.895.1582 <->Software Engineering Research Group<-> Feel the SERG! http://serg.mcs.drexel.edu/ CAT 186, The Microwave http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=Christopher+Dahn&op=index
