Yes but when your tapes cost $100 each and you only have 14, is there a better way to do it?
Probably not. If the value of the data is not that much, than maybe it's not a problem let amanda backup to holdingdisk one more day either, and do the flush on monday or so?
The autoflush command sounds great, do I still need the fake tapedev?
The autoflush directive instructs amanda to automatically do a flush if needed, while doing a normal amdump. The fake tapedev is still needed, or the other runs of amdump during the week would use the tapedev. So your friday cronjob becomes:
ln -s /dev/rmt/0n /dev/fridaytape; amdump Conf; rm /dev/fridaytape
while the rest of the cronjobs do a simple:
amdump Conf
And your amanda.conf has entries like:
...
autoflush on
...
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