Paul Bijnens wrote:

Dave Sherohman wrote:

On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 12:48:35PM +0200, Mark Le Noury wrote:

I'm just a bit worried, for example, that the full dump for 1 disk on 1 server gets done on a Monday, while the full dump for another disk on another server gets done on a Tuesday etc.

Why does this worry you? As long as you know that every disk will get at least one full dump per dumpcycle, what difference does it make if they're not all on the same tape?

Indeed.  It may look strange at first sight, but even in reality this
works out fine very well.

I have five disks per server, 15 in all. I would like to be able to

pick up a tape and say "this is a tape with a full dump on it" or even "this is a tape with a few full dumps on it".

Well, that's easy! With 15 disks, it's pretty much guaranteed that amanda will put at least one full dump on each and every tape, so you can pick up _any_ of your tapes and say, "This is a tape with a few full dumps on it."

  :-  :-)  :-)

a bit of a management nightmare.

Not at all.
First there is as Dave said the indexes. But even without indexes
you still have your "amadmin Config info" to find out which tape is
which.  And if that disk is crashed too, you still have the paper
postscript labels that amanda prints for you that fit nicely in the
tape box.

does most often, and (s)he should have mastered it.

with the company for long periods).