Dave,
I was afraid you where saying one tape total.
Yes, your config should work. Did you figure out how you'll
schedule the fulls for friday ? amadmin force from cron ?
Dumps will remain distinguishable from one another, the files on
tape are node_disk_date.level
athena_usr1_20030812.2
- Level 2 dump on 12 August this year for Athena:/usr2
or something really really close to that format. Humm, maybe its
dots and not underscores, slashes are replaced by underscore I
think so root partition may be athena._.20030812.2
> Thanks for the reply. We are using very expensive tapes and the thing
> I had in mind was recycling my tapes every 4 weeks. Thus I would need 2
> tapes per week. 1 for incrementals (Mon-Thurs) and 1 for full backups
> (Fri). A grand total of 8 tapes plus one for good measure. We are
> spending about 40 ducets a tape. Very pricey. I agree that it isn't
> the most sound configuration but if I can make it work I am willing to try.
>
> If I use amflush will I still be able to index incrementaly backuped
> files on the tape. In other words, off the top of your head (or anyone
> elses) what amanda utilities will become unusable and/or ineffective do
> to this unusual configuration?
>
> TIA
> Dave
>
> Brian Cuttler wrote:
>
> > Humm, that is a question.
> >
> >If you had enough spool area AND didn't mind leaving all of your backups
> >on disk (risky but no worse than using a tape drive as the output device)
> >you _could_ fail to mount the tape and run amflush once/week.
> >
> > Couldn't you ?
> >
> >Still, I don't see having a single output tape, you'd have little or
> >no fallback if something happened, spool disk failure, tape failure,
> >drive problems...
> >
> >Dave - not a config I'd recommend.
> >
> >
> >
> >>hello all,
> >> I have read the Amanda site and seen the faqo-o-matic about amanda not
> >>being able to have multiple backups on one tape. Even though I have
> >>read this I am still curious. Is is it still possible to just use one
> >>tape during a 1 week dumpcycle and 5 runspercycle policy? Can I get
> >>Amanda to append backups?
> >>
> >>Dave
> >>
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