Hi,
I have recently switched to Amanda for making my backups (yes, that
means I'm new to Amanda). I have several small (/etc, /var/lib/rpm,
/var/spool/mail) directories to backup and one large directory (/home).
I would like to back these up to disk. I have followed the HOWTO and
all is working fine.
But... how do I setup my tapes? If I create 16 5GB tapes with a
dumpcycle of 7 days, I cannot store /home on them (not enough space).
But if I create 8 10GB tapes, I will only have one full backup per
dumpcycle, where I would prefer two. And, my tapes would be mostly empty
(only a full backup requires 10GB).
What is a wise strategy? Can I use two tapes in parallel in a disk
backup? How? I am using chg-disk as my tpchanger. Are there better
solutions?
Kind regards,
Mark Wormgoor
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