Hi 1.- If a single dump image (one disc partition) is longer than a tape, amanda can't handle this. If multiple dump images dont fit in a tape you can setup a "changer-device=manual" which will be a script you can write to send an email, a terminal prompt, windows popup, sing a song or whatever to notify that the operator has to replace the tape. I have not used it so I can be wrong.
2.- We do so also. We have one config for Daily tapes and other for Weekly/offsite/fulldumps. In your case: Daily -> dumpcycle 1 week runspercycle 5 (monday to friday) runtapes 1 (If you use 1 tape each day) tapecycle 6 (Or more. You at least need 1 tape extra to not destroy the first valid tape in the cycle in the event of a hardware faillure during the run) If you need, say 2 tapes a day, then runtapes=2, tapecycle=12 Weekly -> dumpcycle 0 (full dumps) runspercycle 1 runtapes 1 (If your weekly dumps fits in 1 tape) tapecycle 2 (1 in site, 1 offsite. Or more) record no If you need, say 3 tapes for the weekly backup, then runtapes=3, tapecycle=6 (list, please let me know if I'm wrong!) Jordi >On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:03:39 0500 Steve Simeonidis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. I need to install a backup software on a few servers and I was told that amanda is really good. What I'm not sure about: 1/ Some of the data we backup do not fit on a single tape How do I handle that if we haven't got a changer?? 2/ Usually we do full backups only. We have 7 tapes, 5 weekday and 2 that are used as "weekly" tapes that are send to another location. How can I configure that with amanda? I'm a bit confused with dumpcycle-runspercycle-tapecycle-runtapes Thanks Steve
