Hi! Amanda is not asking for the tapes in the same order I labeled the tapes, it seems that Amanda is using tapes randomly... Anyone have a clue??? I have installed amanda-2.4.4 on a RedHat server, i
Amanda is trying to avoid overwriting full backups performed at the start of the previous dumpcycle. Try increasing the number of tapes that you have available (tapecycle) in amanda.conf. The formula
Author: "Bort, Paul" <pbort AT tmwsystems DOT com>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 13:28:03 -0400
Actually, dumpcycle and tapecycle shouldn't be the same. Rather than adding a few spares, you might want to reduce dumpcycle and runspercycle, maybe to 2 weeks and 10 tapes. That way, you have a comp