On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 at 10:16am, John Oliver wrote > 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?
There was a post by John R. Jackson about this recently, with detailed instructions. Search the archives. > > > 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. Then your dumpcycle should be 1 week and your runspercycle should be 5. You'll need more tapes for full redundancy, as mentioned, but you won't get the busy Tuesday mornings you are now. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University