On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 06:47:44PM +0000, Alexander Shenkin wrote: > hi folks, > > I have amanda backing up a server in an environment where it's schedule > must conform with the schedule of other windows backups occurring. It's > just backing up the server (itself), and that's all. > > I have it on a 20 tape cycle, 4 weeks, one backup every weekday, full dumps > on mondays and fridays. One backup fits on one tape. I have the tapes > labeled <day of week>-<week number>. So, the tape intended to get > wednesday of week 2's backup is labelled "wednesday-2". If I forget to > replace the tape one day, tuesday-2 for example, I just edit the tapelist > and put "tuesday-2" at the top, so amanda expects "wednesday-2" as the next > tape on wednesday. no problem. > > This was all working great for a few weeks -- four actually. but now i'm > running into problems. Amanda won't overwrite used tapes until <tapecycle> > (= 20 in my case) tapes have been written to. And, since I've skipped a > couple tapes, amanda doesn't want to write to "monday-1", or any other used > tape for that matter. > > Is there a way I can get around this? I know I'm not using amanda in the > exact way it was intended, but i thought there would be sufficient > workarounds to make this work. Thanks in advance for any light you can > shed on this!
Change your tapecycle to 10. You can always have more tapes in rotation than tapecycle, you just can't have less. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
