On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:48:33PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> > I can't just re-order the tapelist?
> 
> There was a post by John R. Jackson about this recently, with detailed 
> instructions.  Search the archives.

Will do.

> > I run amanda each Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
> > mornings.  I do want to get more tapes, so I have a multiple of 5.
> 
> Then your dumpcycle should be 1 week and your runspercycle should be 5.  
> You'll need more tapes for full redundancy, as mentioned, but you won't 
> get the busy Tuesday mornings you are now.

B-b-but... if I do that with the eight tapes I have now... won't it get
a little wonky at some point?

I'm not sure how long it'll take for me to get more tapes... they do
things in a weird way around here.  And they're talking about getting a
new drive that's the same make/model as what they have on the Windows
network, so they may balk at paying $70 each for tapes that may be junk
in a few weeks.

I want to make the most efficient use of the tapes I have until I know
what's going on... :-)

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