On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:07:21AM -0800, Jay Lessert wrote:
> It uses tapes in whatever order they appear in tapelist.
>
> Amanda doesn't care about your numerical order, the tapes
> could be named tape_frog, tape_tree, tape_blue, they're
> all just strings.
>
> You can amrmtape, re-label, and hand-edit the tapelist to get
> what you want.
I can't just re-order the tapelist?
> > Here's what I'm using now:
> >
> > dumpcycle 4 days
> > runspercycle 4
> > tapecycle 8 tapes
>
> This looks like an ok minimal config (you always want at least 2X dumpcycle
> in tapecycle, as you have here).
>
> But we need to know what the run schedule is; if you run amdump every
> every day (7X/week), you will get almost 2 fulls/week (one every 4
> days, two every 8 days). Is that what you want?
I run amanda each Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
mornings. I do want to get more tapes, so I have a multiple of 5.
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