On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:37:51AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > tapecycle parameter do ? If there are less than tapecycle tape in the > > tapelist will it force amdump to ask for a new one ? > > Yep. A tape must be at least <tapecycle> tapes old before amanda will > agree to reuse it. So for you, with tapecycle set to 14, amanda will > refuse to overwrite the last 14 tapes that have been used.
Why then does my tapelist have reuse at the end of every single tape's entry ? > I always amflush everything to a single tape. AFAIK, the only > disadvantage to doing it that way is that, if that one tape goes bad, > you're losing more backups. (And, similarly, if you do what you're > talking about and your holding drive dies on Sunday night...) OK - both caveats understood. If there are people working they can change the tape. Otherwise, it's just some extra backups and if a tape or the holding disk goes bad, it's not a big loss. Thanks, Niall O Broin
