Hi Palle,

You just need to set your tapecycle to a small value, amanda will
hapily accept any tape you put in the drive.

Your tapecycle should not be smaller than runspercycle * runtapes.

Jean-Louis

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 12:37:28AM +0100, Palle Girgensohn wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Is it possible to trick amanda into using a deterministic tape every day of 
> the week, so the tapes can be labeled "Monday odd week", "Tuesday odd 
> week", etc...
> 
> I have a customer that wants this. They sometimes forget/fail to insert the 
> right tape, and the operator guy is used to the described procedure from 
> their other systems (yes, they have more than one backup system...) and 
> this makes it less error prone for them.
> 
> While I personally don't think it is a great idea, hey, the customer is 
> always right... ?
> 
> >From what I've read in FAQ:s et al, this cannot really be done with 
> >amanda, 
> but I guess it can be done somehow by tricking amanda? Perhaps a script 
> that runs amadmin no-reuse|reuse commands before each backup to ensure that 
> the right tape is used for dumping? Stupid idea, perhaps? Better ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Palle

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