You say I should keep 1 or 2 tapes to replace a defect one. So I have 15 working tapes.
I would like not to backup in weekend because there is no activity.
My Dell PowerVault has an auto-changer with 8 slots for 8 tapes. I would like to have 8 tapes offsite and to change them once a week.
What would be your values for the most important parameters from amanda.conf (dumpcycle, runspercycle, runtapes etc).
Thanks a lot,
ddaas
Gene Heskett wrote:
I have 8 tapes. This is enaugh for a weeek. I've already ordered another 8 tapes for one more week.
Good. This will allow a much saner dumpcycle and tapecycle setting.
Suggestion. Don't put them all in the tapecycle, save back the last 1 or 2 so that if a tape should upchuck for some reason, you have an instant spare that only needs to be labeled with the next number in the sequence (don't re-use an old label, at least till that label is expired at the end of tapecycle by amanda) and placed in service.
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