On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 06:47:44PM +0000, Alexander Shenkin wrote:
> hi folks,
> 
> I have amanda backing up a server in an environment where it's schedule 
> must conform with the schedule of other windows backups occurring.  It's 
> just backing up the server (itself), and that's all.
> 
> I have it on a 20 tape cycle, 4 weeks, one backup every weekday, full dumps 
> on mondays and fridays.  One backup fits on one tape.  I have the tapes 
> labeled <day of week>-<week number>.  So, the tape intended to get 
> wednesday of week 2's backup is labelled "wednesday-2".  If I forget to 
> replace the tape one day, tuesday-2 for example, I just edit the tapelist 
> and put "tuesday-2" at the top, so amanda expects "wednesday-2" as the next 
> tape on wednesday.  no problem.
> 
> This was all working great for a few weeks -- four actually.  but now i'm 
> running into problems.  Amanda won't overwrite used tapes until <tapecycle> 
> (= 20 in my case) tapes have been written to.  And, since I've skipped a 
> couple tapes, amanda doesn't want to write to "monday-1", or any other used 
> tape for that matter.
> 
> Is there a way I can get around this?  I know I'm not using amanda in the 
> exact way it was intended, but i thought there would be sufficient 
> workarounds to make this work.  Thanks in advance for any light you can 
> shed on this!

Change your tapecycle to 10.  You can always have more tapes in rotation
than tapecycle, you just can't have less.

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