On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 08:50:59AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm setting up Amanda for the first time and would like to configure > it for our existing backup strategy. We want to do complete backups > nightly during weekdays, i.e. Monday-Friday night. Once a week, let's > say Wednesday, we want to take one tape to an off-site vault and bring > another tape back, meaning we'd be taking a tape out of the normal > rotation and bringing another one back into the rotation. We'd want > to have a minimum of 4 tapes in rotation (3 here and 1 off-site), > possibly a few more, but not a huge number of tapes. All will be > complete backups, no incrementals. > > What parameters would work best in Amanda for doing this with a > minimal need for manual "adjustments" during the week? Is it possible > to just take a tape out of the rotation for a week and give Amanda a > different tape than it expects, or does a person have to tell Amanda > they've done this each time they do it? > > Thanks for any help or tips anyone might have!
Set your dumpcycle and runspercycle to 1. That will do full dumps each run. Set your tapecycle to 1 or 2. If set to 1, amanda will use any available tape. If set to 2 it will not reuse the most recently used tape. But all the others will be usable. If the tape it would prefer to use is off-site, it will use one of the other available tapes. You may get some messages about not being able to use the tape it wants. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)