On Tuesday 08 November 2005 03:11, Montagni, Giovanni wrote:
>My backup have to use 2 different tapes to do full dumps.
>I read the amanda's docs, but i can't understand how can i tell to
>amanda to use 2 tapes without tape changer (i use an lto drive so i have
>to change tape manually at the morning when i arrive to work, tha backup
>start late at night).
>I tried with chg-manual, but i can't switch tape when it is ran by cron.

Why not?  The change tape message should be waiting for you in the
morning, and when you've changed the tape, amanda should be able to
resume, having completed the backup to the holding disk in the
meantime.  So all it needs to do is flush the remainder.  Or, maybe you
have to issue the amflush command when you've changed the tape in the
morning. I'm not 100% sure, never having used chg-manual personally.

You need enough holding disk for that of course.  Not having enough
holding disk seriously limits amanda's abilities.

>Can anyone help me? I am completely lost...
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Giovanni

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