On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 11:28:26PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> Steven J. Backus wrote:
> >  I'd like to do my daily dumps to the holding disk, then amflush
> >it to the tapes over the weekend.  The suggestion I've heard here
> >is to leave out the tapes, then put them in on Friday night, but
> >what if I want to take Friday off?  Is there a way to do this
> >automatically?
> 
> Put a fake tapedev in amanda.conf (but *not* /dev/null), e.g.
> 
>   tapedev "/dev/fridaytape"
> 
> (do *not* use /dev/null!)
> Then make a symlink to the correct device just before you flush:
> 
>       ln -s /dev/rmt/0n  /dev/fridaytape
>       amflush -b -f TheConfig
>       rm /dev/fridaytape
>       

With the autoflush feature of current amanda releases
this could be automated in the crontab so the tape could
be inserted any time before friday's amdump.

     
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