On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 09:20:24AM -0800, John Oliver wrote: > I don't think I quite grok the way amanda schedules backups. > > I had three tapes for the DLT drive, and amanda seemed to be rotating > through them just fine. I got five more tapes, labelled them, and added > them to the rotation. The first weird thing is, it asked for tape 1, > then tape 8, then tape 7, then tape 6... Why can't it stay in order? > > Next, ever since adding tapes and adjusting amanda.conf, it seems to > constantly run out of tape, try to back up too much, etc. I think I > need a better understanding of exactly what the various values in > amanda.conf mean. > > Here's what I'm using now: > > dumpcycle 4 days > runspercycle 4 > tapecycle 8 tapes
The ordering 1,2,3 ... is in your mind. Amanda sees it as First one I saw, second one I saw, ... The actual names are immaterial to amanda. Since you are still early in the game, you could rework the tapelist by hand. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
