On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 08:25:26PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> 
> Frank Smith wrote:
> >If you have plenty of holding disk space and no changer you might 
> >prefer to not use chg-manual and lie about your tape length. I'm sure
> >someone will correct me if I'm wrong (I don't use chg-manual), but I
> 
>  :-)
> 
> Never lie to amanda. She hates it.
> I use chg-multi (two drives) and tell manda that she can use 3 tapes
> (runtapes 3).  With these parameters Amanda writes two tapes at night,
> and dumps the rest to holdingdisk, which I flush manually on monday
> morning on the third tape. (This works also for one drive.)
> Note: you have to set the reserve parameter to something else than
> the default 100 (= reserve 100% of the holdingdisk for incrementals
> when dumping in degraded mode because you ran out of tape)
> for this work.

You should set runtapes to 2 and set maxdumpsize to the maximum
size of your nightly dump (eg. 3*tape_length).

Jean-Louis
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