Hi Palle, You just need to set your tapecycle to a small value, amanda will hapily accept any tape you put in the drive.
Your tapecycle should not be smaller than runspercycle * runtapes. Jean-Louis On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 12:37:28AM +0100, Palle Girgensohn wrote: > Hi! > > Is it possible to trick amanda into using a deterministic tape every day of > the week, so the tapes can be labeled "Monday odd week", "Tuesday odd > week", etc... > > I have a customer that wants this. They sometimes forget/fail to insert the > right tape, and the operator guy is used to the described procedure from > their other systems (yes, they have more than one backup system...) and > this makes it less error prone for them. > > While I personally don't think it is a great idea, hey, the customer is > always right... ? > > >From what I've read in FAQ:s et al, this cannot really be done with > >amanda, > but I guess it can be done somehow by tricking amanda? Perhaps a script > that runs amadmin no-reuse|reuse commands before each backup to ensure that > the right tape is used for dumping? Stupid idea, perhaps? Better ideas? > > Thanks, > Palle -- 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
