On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 09:31:34AM -0500, stan wrote: > K, now that I've solved (thanks to everyone here's help) the problem of > having disks that are larger than my tape's capacity. I think I better add > tapes to my existing system. here's what I've got in Amanda.conf relative > to this now: > > dumpcycle 5 days # the number of days in the normal dump cycle > runspercycle 5 # Number of time Amanda will be run per dump cycle > tapecycle 20 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation > > What's the safest way (where safe is defined as not risking availability of > my existing backups) to add more tapes, without taking the ones I have out > of service. Let's say I want to go to 40 tapes. > > Yes, Amanda is run _every_ day, as the above implies, this is my home > setup. > > I may also have to increase dumpcycle, but I won't know that until I've run > a few days to get the balance back.
Label them. Don't change a thing in amanda.conf. When you want them to appear in the rotation, say when current tape #1 is about to be needed, insert new tape #21, then #22, ... After they are introduced, increase tapecycle if you want to. For early clarification (often needed :), amanda will use new tapes anytime. If you change tapecycle NOW, amanda will want the new tapes NOW, not in any human understandable rotation order. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
