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.

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