Why then does my tapelist have reuse at the end of every single tape's
entry ?
Presumably (i.e., I'm guessing here) because the tape will, eventually,
be reused. ...
Correct. Or, possibly more accurately, because the tape may be
eventually reused.
The amadmin command allows you to mark
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:12:14PM +0100, Niall O Broin wrote:
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:37:51AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
Yep. A tape must be at least tapecycle tapes old before amanda will
agree to reuse it. So for you, with tapecycle set to 14, amanda will
refuse to overwrite the
What exactly does tapecycle do ? I have in my config
dumpcycle 2 weeks # the number of days in the normal dump cycle
runspercycle 10 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days
# (2 weeks * 5 amdump runs per week -- just weekdays)
tapecycle 14 tapes #
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 09:59:45AM +0100, Niall O Broin wrote:
and asked for #15 for tonight. From what I've read before, amdump will use
the last tape in the tapelist marked reuse (incidentally, every tape in my
tapelist is marked reuse - is that correct ?) so what exactly does the
tapecycle
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:37:51AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
tapecycle parameter do ? If there are less than tapecycle tape in the
tapelist will it force amdump to ask for a new one ?
Yep. A tape must be at least tapecycle tapes old before amanda will
agree to reuse it. So for you,
Hello Everyone,
I'm new to amanda. I have succesfully compiled and installed the latest
version from amanda.org onto a RH7.2 machine. I have a Quantum DLT4000
tape drive with 5 tapes. I would like to run amanda every weekend to do a
full weekly backup (no incrementals) of about 12 networked
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 at 9:22am, Richard B. Tilley (Brad) wrote
I'm new to amanda. I have succesfully compiled and installed the latest
version from amanda.org onto a RH7.2 machine. I have a Quantum DLT4000
tape drive with 5 tapes. I would like to run amanda every weekend to do a
full weekly
