On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 06:47:44PM +0000, Alexander Shenkin wrote:
> hi folks,
>
> I have amanda backing up a server in an environment where it's schedule
> must conform with the schedule of other windows backups occurring. It's
> just backing up the server (itself), and that's all.
>
> I have it on a 20 tape cycle, 4 weeks, one backup every weekday, full dumps
> on mondays and fridays. One backup fits on one tape. I have the tapes
> labeled <day of week>-<week number>. So, the tape intended to get
> wednesday of week 2's backup is labelled "wednesday-2". If I forget to
> replace the tape one day, tuesday-2 for example, I just edit the tapelist
> and put "tuesday-2" at the top, so amanda expects "wednesday-2" as the next
> tape on wednesday. no problem.
>
> This was all working great for a few weeks -- four actually. but now i'm
> running into problems. Amanda won't overwrite used tapes until <tapecycle>
> (= 20 in my case) tapes have been written to. And, since I've skipped a
> couple tapes, amanda doesn't want to write to "monday-1", or any other used
> tape for that matter.
>
> Is there a way I can get around this? I know I'm not using amanda in the
> exact way it was intended, but i thought there would be sufficient
> workarounds to make this work. Thanks in advance for any light you can
> shed on this!
Change your tapecycle to 10. You can always have more tapes in rotation
than tapecycle, you just can't have less.
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