On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 05:51:08PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've started hacking up an amanda.conf file, and as I'm reading, I'm
> getting worried.  It seems that amanda wants a new tape every day if I'm
> doing daily backups.  This presents a problem.  I have a single 70GB
> drive, no changer, and the systems being backed up are at a remote
> location.  At most I can have someone there once a week to change tapes.
> 
> Capacity is not a problem; there will be less than a few hundred MB of
> change per day, and an initial full dump of all 11 machines should come in
> under 5-10GB.  So the tape doesn't "need" to be changed out because it's
> getting full...

If you must have an holding disk as big as your tape
 set autoflush to yes
 set reserve to 0
 change tape once a week

Your dump will go to holding disk, and will be flushed to tape
when you change the tape.

Jean-Louis
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