On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:07:21AM -0800, Jay Lessert wrote: > It uses tapes in whatever order they appear in tapelist. > > Amanda doesn't care about your numerical order, the tapes > could be named tape_frog, tape_tree, tape_blue, they're > all just strings. > > You can amrmtape, re-label, and hand-edit the tapelist to get > what you want.
I can't just re-order the tapelist? > > Here's what I'm using now: > > > > dumpcycle 4 days > > runspercycle 4 > > tapecycle 8 tapes > > This looks like an ok minimal config (you always want at least 2X dumpcycle > in tapecycle, as you have here). > > But we need to know what the run schedule is; if you run amdump every > every day (7X/week), you will get almost 2 fulls/week (one every 4 > days, two every 8 days). Is that what you want? I run amanda each Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday mornings. I do want to get more tapes, so I have a multiple of 5. -- John Oliver, CCNA http://www.john-oliver.net/ Linux/UNIX/network consulting http://www.john-oliver.net/resume/ *** sendmail, Apache, ftp, DNS, spam filtering *** **** Colocation, T1s, web/email/ftp hosting ****