--On Thursday, February 06, 2003 12:48:44 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My tape server only has a tape driver with a single slot. We have to manually change tapes when do backup. So far, amanda doesn't ask user to change tape when a tape is full. The 'amdump' process just exits and write error message to log. Is this a configuration issue? What should I do?
Option 1: Make 'runtapes' greater than 1 in your config. Configure a changer (use 'chg-manual' to manually change tapes). Note: You have to be there to change the tape, the dumps stop until you do.
Option 2: Configure a large holdingdisk. Set 'reserve' to a low number (or 0) Backups that don't fit on your tape will keep going to the holdingdisk, then you run amflush to write them out to tape (if that tape fills, you can keep running amflush until it all ends up on a tape). Frank -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
