Dave, I was afraid you where saying one tape total.
Yes, your config should work. Did you figure out how you'll schedule the fulls for friday ? amadmin force from cron ? Dumps will remain distinguishable from one another, the files on tape are node_disk_date.level athena_usr1_20030812.2 - Level 2 dump on 12 August this year for Athena:/usr2 or something really really close to that format. Humm, maybe its dots and not underscores, slashes are replaced by underscore I think so root partition may be athena._.20030812.2 > Thanks for the reply. We are using very expensive tapes and the thing > I had in mind was recycling my tapes every 4 weeks. Thus I would need 2 > tapes per week. 1 for incrementals (Mon-Thurs) and 1 for full backups > (Fri). A grand total of 8 tapes plus one for good measure. We are > spending about 40 ducets a tape. Very pricey. I agree that it isn't > the most sound configuration but if I can make it work I am willing to try. > > If I use amflush will I still be able to index incrementaly backuped > files on the tape. In other words, off the top of your head (or anyone > elses) what amanda utilities will become unusable and/or ineffective do > to this unusual configuration? > > TIA > Dave > > Brian Cuttler wrote: > > > Humm, that is a question. > > > >If you had enough spool area AND didn't mind leaving all of your backups > >on disk (risky but no worse than using a tape drive as the output device) > >you _could_ fail to mount the tape and run amflush once/week. > > > > Couldn't you ? > > > >Still, I don't see having a single output tape, you'd have little or > >no fallback if something happened, spool disk failure, tape failure, > >drive problems... > > > >Dave - not a config I'd recommend. > > > > > > > >>hello all, > >> I have read the Amanda site and seen the faqo-o-matic about amanda not > >>being able to have multiple backups on one tape. Even though I have > >>read this I am still curious. Is is it still possible to just use one > >>tape during a 1 week dumpcycle and 5 runspercycle policy? Can I get > >>Amanda to append backups? > >> > >>Dave > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > >
