Hello, I just installed amanda without issue and have been reading the man pages, faq, and egroups archive. I still have some issues. First some details on my setup. I have a Linux server with an internal tape drive. I have 8 tapes (DLT 20/40) and want at least one full backup per week. I read that amanda always writes from the start of the tape (no appending). That is fine, it's what I do now with tar and cron. I'm not here to change tapes on the weekend so backups will run only on the weekdays (which I will schedule in cron). Right now, I will be backing up only the local machine, no clients. Also, I don't have much drive space to buffer the backups to disk before they go to tape (27GB of drive space, about 25 full).
Now, what I don't really understand is some of the config file options. I want at least one full backup each week. My current config is: dumpcycle 7 days runspercycle 7 tapecycle 8 tapes But I'm not sure if that should be dumpcycle 5 days runspercycle 5 tapecycle 8 tapes since I will only be doing backups on the weekends. With these configs, I'm not sure when amanda will do full backups. This is a bit confusing to me. Next, I have the following tape device: Compaq 20/40-GB DLT Drive http://www.compaq.com/products/storageworks/dlt2040/index.html http://www.compaq.com/products/quickspecs/10234_div/10234_div.html I'm not sure which tapetype to use (or how to configure my own) from the specs above, there doesn't seem to be a match in the files and the specs don't give me the needed values. Is there a default DLT setting? Thanks for any help you can provide. Mike
