Hi!  I've installed in my debian the amanda system. Thank's to amcheck it seems 
my config is ok, but I've some doubts and questions (it's no clear for me).

1) My tape is a PowerVault (the server is a dell poweredge 4400) and I make use 
of dds4 tapes ( 40gb ). I've typed the following descriptors in my amanda.conf:

define tapetype DDS-4-20{
 comment "DDS-4 PowerVault without compression"
 length 20000 mbytes
 filemark 65 kbytes
 speed 1255 kps
}

define tapetype DDS-4-40{
 comment "DDS-4 PowerVault with compression"
DDS-4-20
 length 40000 mbytes
}

Then my tapetype var is:     tapetype DDS-4-40

Do I suppose this will work properly?  Have anyone experience with DDS-4 tapes 
and amanda?

2) I still haven't the tapes (quantity) , but I must demonstrate to my "boss" 
that amanda works and will work. Then, I've only 2 tapes dds4 and I thinked the 
following:

- doing a full backup every week (on friday night) ( simple ;-) ).

I've labeled the tapes ( tape01, tape02) and I would like to configure my 
amanda.conf to this way. (the first week amanda demands to me tape01 .. the 
next week tape02 ... 01 ... 02 .. )

I've tried to configure my amanda.conf but I'm not sure it's ok. I've the 
following:

dumpcycle 0
runspercycle 2
tapecycle 2 tapes
runtapes 1

tapetype DDS-4-40
... etc

and my crontab.amanda runs amdump every friday night.

Is this ok? I must to change anything?

Best regards,

Raúl Cruz Carmona
rcruz AT wild-spain DOT com