On Friday 15 August 2003 14:47, 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!
>
>Best,
>Allie
>
I believe that amadmin can fix that, see the reuse option in the 
manpage.

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