On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 09:00:28PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau said: > 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.
Does that basically mean if I were to set Amanda to 1 runspercycle and 1 runtapes, I would basically be disabling overwrite protection, and allowing Amanda to use any tape I gave it? > 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 > -- Adam Smith Information Technology Officer SAGE Automation Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sageautomation.com
