On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 01:38:18PM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote: > >On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 04:53:55PM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote: > > > >- As was mentioned earlier, your tapes won't stay synchronized to the > >calendar. If Monday is a holiday and the tape doesn't get switched, > >amanda will ask for the Monday tape on Tuesday. > > Doesn't really matter. The day names are just meant to make it easier for > the person managing the tapes (not me) to know which one to bring. I > thought about using labels of the form <week no>.<run no> or simple > sequencing, but I decided that would be more confusing.
Your confusion level may vary from mine and from the person managing the tapes. I would certainly be confused when amanda needs a tape labeled Monday on Wednesday. Trust the collective experience of the list, they will get out of your planned sequence. > Forgot to mention this earlier: I'm not using incrementals at all. Tapes > from the same week will contain full backups of different directories, and > a given file is backed up (only) once a week. When you figure out how to get amanda to do this please let the list know. It is very atypical amanda usage. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
