I'm hoping someone here will be kind enough to help me teach Amanda about our tape rotation. I've read through man pages and mailing lists, but it seems the way Amanda deals with tapes doesn't lend itself well to our rotation schedule.
I'll spare you a complete explanation of our backup system, and just tell you where I've run into trouble. Tapes used on Thursday are sent offsite, and we receive an old offsite tape back to use for next Thursday. The tape we write to each Thursday is from 4 months earlier for that same week (so 3rd week of May, we get the tape used the 3rd week of January). On the last Thursday of every month, rather than write to an old tape we take a new tape and send it offsite, never to return (we hope). So, the tact on this I've taken is trying to use different configurations, which works well. However the problem I have is that some months will have 5 thursdays, while others only 4. What this meant in the past was some tapes made on the final (non-permanent offsite) week would stay offsite until another month came around with 5 Thursdays in it, which at times can be at least a year. Is there any chance of getting Amanda to ask for the right tapes with this kind of setup? Do I have any alternatives? Up until now I'd just kill the tapelist file and start over. Any help would be appreciated. Chris -- Chris Cameron UpNIX Internet Administrator ardvark.upnix.net gak.upnix.net -- http://www.upnix.com
