On Friday 15 August 2003 14:47, 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! > >Best, >Allie > I believe that amadmin can fix that, see the reuse option in the manpage.
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