On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 08:25:26PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: > > Frank Smith wrote: > >If you have plenty of holding disk space and no changer you might > >prefer to not use chg-manual and lie about your tape length. I'm sure > >someone will correct me if I'm wrong (I don't use chg-manual), but I > > :-) > > Never lie to amanda. She hates it. > I use chg-multi (two drives) and tell manda that she can use 3 tapes > (runtapes 3). With these parameters Amanda writes two tapes at night, > and dumps the rest to holdingdisk, which I flush manually on monday > morning on the third tape. (This works also for one drive.) > Note: you have to set the reserve parameter to something else than > the default 100 (= reserve 100% of the holdingdisk for incrementals > when dumping in degraded mode because you ran out of tape) > for this work.
You should set runtapes to 2 and set maxdumpsize to the maximum size of your nightly dump (eg. 3*tape_length). Jean-Louis -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] D�partement IRO, Universit� de Montr�al C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLE Tel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529 Montr�al, Canada, H3C 3J7 Fax: (514) 343-5834
