On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 11:06:06AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 04:53:55PM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote: > > Well, no matter what I do, I need *some* way to label new tapes without > > too many '-f's etc. Also, I know some people are using separate configs > > for permanent backups, but it seems like this requires a lot of additional > > work, > > Not nearly as much extra work as trying to coerce amanda into running > in a fashion she's not designed to, such as tying specific tapes to > specific days of the week or mixing standard and archival backups within > a single config. > ... > > So just use two configs. Label your daily tapes Daily1-DailyN, set your > tapecycle to N, and let amanda figure out which tape she wants when. > Label your archival tapes Archive<Month><Year>, set the tapecycle to > 1 (or anything else, since you'll always be feeding it a new tape), > and turn on always-full. Have them both use the same disklist file to
and "record no" ?? > avoid maintenance hassles. Plus, since the archives are always-full, > you won't need to store as many tapes. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
