Gerhard den Hollander schrieb:
* ddaasd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 04:05:11PM +0100)
I configured Amanda on Tuesday to adapt itself to my new environment.
Tuesday night was its first run.
I don't want to have the cycle from Tuesday to Tuesday. In addition I run amdump only on weekdays.
I want Monday to change the tapes and also Monday to be the first run.
How can I make my first backup (on Tuesday night) to look like my second one? I want the Tuesday Tape to become the Monday tape for Amanda.
Can I modify the date of an already written tape?
I am not sure you understand how amanda works.
Amanda makes sure that if runs per cycle is set to 5, then it will backup
everything in 5 days.
I have dumpcycle=7,runspercycle=5 (I backup only weekdays) and tapecycle=15;
I've inserted 5 tapes (for one week) in my dell PowerVault. It changes the tapes automatically every day, so amanda has every day a new tape.
Every Monday I have to change the 5 tapes with the next 5 tapes. In this way I have backups for 3 weeks.
I wanted to start the process on Monday (the first backup, changing the tapes etc), but I started it on Tuesday. Now my backup-week is from Tuesday till Tuesday. I didn't want that so I wanted to make 2 dumps in a day to catch Amanda.
But I think Tuesday is also o good day for changing tapes :)
What do you think?
You don;t have to worry about hvaing sp[ecific tapes for specific days. You can always get your data back .
Just labal your tapes
amanda0001, amanda0002, ... amanda0099 (and instead of amanda I suggest you use the configuration name)
Furthermore you write: | I want Monday to change the tapes and also Monday to be the first run. You need to use a new tape for every day amanda runs, so you have to change the tapes every day
