torsdagen den 22 maj 2003 kl 20.06 skrev Stephen D. Lane:

On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 07:23:59PM +0200, Per von Zweigbergk wrote:
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From what I've understood, Amanda should be run from a cron job, for
example at at midnight, once a day. I've also understood that you can
configure Amanda to only run on weekdays.

So, basically, the ideal scenario is to have someone go in to the
server room every morning, remove the ejected tape from the previous
day, and store it in a safe. The operator should then put in the next
tape in the cycle. The operator could even take the tapes home as a
crude off-site backup.

I do this every weekday (without the take-home part :)  The job runs
every weekday morning at 02:03am.  When I come in in the morning (which
varies from 6am to 11am :), the job is done, and the first thing I do
is swap the tape (I find that if I don't do it _first_thing_ it doesn't
always get done...)

However, is it possible to tell Amanda to never ever use more than one
tape per day, circumventing the lack of a tape changer or tape

operator? Basically, it might be able to fully dump one filesystem, and

only do incremental dumps on the rest of them, never performing more
than one full dump per tape.

This is also exactly my setup.  One tape per day, 5 (week)days per
week.  We were doing all level zeros, but one of the filesystems has
grown too big to do this, so now we're doing incrementals as well, with
a level zero every other day for each filesystem:

Correct me if I'm wrong. :-)

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Per von Zweigbergk <pvz AT e.kth DOT se>