Steven J. Backus wrote:

Yes but when your tapes cost $100 each and you only have 14, is
there a better way to do it?

Probably not.  If the value of the data is not that much, than
maybe it's not a problem let amanda backup to holdingdisk one
more day either, and do the flush on monday or so?

The autoflush command sounds great, do I still need the fake
tapedev?

The autoflush directive instructs amanda to automatically do a flush
if needed, while doing a normal amdump.
The fake tapedev is still needed, or the other runs of amdump during
the week would use the tapedev. So your friday cronjob becomes:

  ln -s /dev/rmt/0n /dev/fridaytape; amdump Conf; rm /dev/fridaytape

while the rest of the cronjobs do a simple:

  amdump Conf

And your amanda.conf has entries like:

        ...
        autoflush on
        ...
        tapedev "/dev/fridaytape"

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