I only have 1 tape at the moment. I am just doing it for testing.
I wanted amanda to only backup once every week, every sat, 11:00pm.

--On Thursday, September 19, 2002 09:48:22 -0500 Neil <neil-on-amanda AT restricted.dyndns DOT org> wrote:

This was the report I got last night during my amdump test. What can you say about it? I tried doing an "mt erase 0" but looks like that the previous label is still there. I even tried su amanda -c "amlabel -f Daily Daily01", it forces it but I got a feeling that the old label is still What would be the command to totally erase everything on my tape, including the labels?

amlabel -f does rewrite the label no matter what label used to be there.
It looks like Amanda took the Daily01 label and did a backup to it.
It also appears that might have been the only tape you labeled and
Amanda is looking for another tape matching labelstr in your config, so
it was looking for Daily001. If you had already labeled a Daily02 it
would have asked for that.
 If you were expecting Amanda to keep writing to the same tape, it

won't until you've completed tapecycle number of runs.

Frank

 ------------------------REPORT-----------
From:  User Amanda <amanda AT buko.restricted.dyndns DOT org>
To:  ronneil AT restricted.dyndns DOT org
Date:  19 Sep 2002, 02:06:09 AM

Subject: Daily AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR September 19, 2002 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- ----

These dumps were to tape Daily01.

The next tape Amanda expects to use is: Daily001.

STATISTICS:
                         Total       Full      Daily
                       --------   --------   --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:04
Run Time (hrs:min)         0:51
Dump Time (hrs:min)        0:46       0:46       0:00
Output Size (meg)        2062.2     2061.9        0.4
Original Size (meg)      2062.2     2061.9        0.4

Avg Compressed Size (%) -- -- -- (level:#disks ...)

Filesystems Dumped            3          2          1   (1:1)
Avg Dump Rate (k/s)       761.2      763.1       49.5
Tape Time (hrs:min)        0:47       0:46       0:00
Tape Size (meg)          2062.3     2061.9        0.4

Tape Used (%) 106.9 106.8 0.0 (level:#disks ...)

Filesystems Taped             3          2          1   (1:1)
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s)   756.4      757.4      102.5

NOTES:

planner: buko.restricted.dyndns.org /var 20020919 0 [dumps too big, full dump

delayed]
 taper: tape Daily01 kb 2111840 fm 3 [OK]

DUMP SUMMARY:
                                    DUMPER STATS            TAPER STATS
HOSTNAME     DISK        L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS  KB/s MMM:SS  KB/s
-------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------
buko.restric /           0   44480  44512   --    0:361246.1   0:56 796.4
buko.restric /usr        0 20668802066912   --   45:31 756.8  45:32 756.6
buko.restric /var        1     360    416   --    0:07  49.5   0:04 102.5

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