On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 09:00:28PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau said:
> 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.

Does that basically mean if I were to set Amanda to 1 runspercycle and 1
runtapes, I would basically be disabling overwrite protection, and allowing
Amanda to use any tape I gave it?


> 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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