On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 05:51:08PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: > 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...
If you must have an holding disk as big as your tape set autoflush to yes set reserve to 0 change tape once a week Your dump will go to holding disk, and will be flushed to tape when you change the tape. Jean-Louis -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Departement IRO, Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLE Tel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529 Montreal, Canada, H3C 3J7 Fax: (514) 343-5834
