On 2018-01-03 05:46 PM, Chris Miller wrote: > Hi Jean-Louis, > > A vtape do not reserve the space, it only use the space of the > dump you put on it. > The vtape size should be the maximum size of any days or larger, > they could be 120GB or 2TG, the result will be the same. > Some vtape will use 5GB, some will use 120GB. > > Thanks very much. That is quite helpful. > > Is it possible to re-use a vtape for several successive backups? If > the vtape were twice the size of a level 0 backup, then the level 1 > backups would be appended, but the next level 0 would be too large and > would trigger a new tape. > > Additionally, How do I configure larger cycles, meaning, I will use > 150GB each week, and 2TB can hold 13 weeks. How do I tell Amanda that > after 13 weeks, she should start over by deleting the oldest vtape?
That's exactly what it will do, unless you explicitly tell Amanda that a tape is out of commission. So, just like your traditional robot, it will cycle. HOWEVER, note that Amanda will not write to a tape that has been recently written, whether it's 5 GB or 150 GB. It does /not/ append to tapes (barring some painful and unnecessary manual configuration, that is). So, you're better off using small vtapes. Because if it only writes 5 GB to 150 GB in a 2 TB NAS, that remaining 145 GB is unavailable to Amanda until that vtape comes up for overwriting. > > Thanks for the help, > -- > Chris. > > V:916.974.0424 > F:916.974.0428
