On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 08:51:32AM -0700, Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: > > The amanda configuration I'm planning to put live this week includes these > entries in amanda.conf: > > dumpcycle 0 (to force a full backup on every run, because all our data fit > comfortably onto a single tape every night, and amdump only runs for 4.5 > hours)
Gee, I thought it took about 53 hours for your taping. Oh you reconnected the cables huh? ;)) > runspercycle 5 days (to do an amdump each day Monday to Friday) No, that is runs per dumpcycle. Your dumpcycle is basically 1 day, you are only doing one run per day. > tapecycle 21 tapes (to have 4 weeks' worth of "historical backups" + one > extra tape for good measure) > > How do I now handle taking out one tape a month for long-term archiving? > You could use a lower tapecycle setting but really use 21 tapes. Then amanada wouldn't care if one went away. Otherwise, add a newly labeled tape. > If my tapes are labelled daily-1, daily-2, etc., then how do I take out one > tape a month but make sure that this doesn't confuse amanda, and that I will > be able to restore from that tape in the future? amadmin <config> noreuse tapelabel > > Do I add a new tape each time in my numbering sequence? > > Can I reuse tape labels but somehow cause amanda to not overwrite the > information needed to do restores from the archived tapes? Not with amanda capabilities. How about when you remove daily-9, you make a new tape as daily-9b or daily-9.1. Reset your label string appropriately. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
