You could also stick with ONE configuration, but have a separate batch job set all tapes to no-reuse before the amdump, so there are no available tapes. Then set them to reuse before the amflush job.
amadmin <config> no-reuse <tape-id. amadmin <config> reuse <tape-id. But it will still cycle through all the tapes, looking for something it can use. /dev/missing is cleaner. Deb On Nov 16, 2011, at 4:38 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Matt <[email protected]> writes: > > I'm trying to run the dump during the day and then send the backup > to Amazon at night when it won't disturb my bandwidth. > > Long ago I did this by having two config files, one with /dev/missing as > the tape, or something like that, so all works well except that opening > the tape fails. Then the config is swapped back to use the tape. >
