As far as I know, unfortunately there is no way to get around this dilemma becuase Amanda is not capable of appending tapes.
Michael Martinez > -----Original Message----- > From: Charles Sprickman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 5:51 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: remote site, no changer > > > Hello, > > I've started hacking up an amanda.conf file, and as I'm reading, I'm > getting worried. It seems that amanda wants a new tape every > day if I'm > doing daily backups. This presents a problem. I have a single 70GB > drive, no changer, and the systems being backed up are at a remote > location. At most I can have someone there once a week to > change tapes. > > Capacity is not a problem; there will be less than a few hundred MB of > change per day, and an initial full dump of all 11 machines > should come in > under 5-10GB. So the tape doesn't "need" to be changed out > because it's > getting full... > > I know this is not optimal, but there's no budget for an AIT > changer at > this time (they look to be around $5-$8K - the drive was $500)... > > Thanks, > > Charles >
