On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 09:31:34AM -0500, stan wrote:
> K, now that I've solved (thanks to everyone here's help) the problem of
> having disks that are larger than my tape's capacity. I think I better add
> tapes to my existing system. here's what I've got in Amanda.conf relative
> to this now:
> 
> dumpcycle 5 days        # the number of days in the normal dump cycle
> runspercycle 5          # Number of time Amanda will be run per dump cycle
> tapecycle 20 tapes      # the number of tapes in rotation
> 
> What's the safest way (where safe is defined as not risking availability of
> my existing backups) to add more tapes, without taking the ones I have out
> of service. Let's say I want to go to 40 tapes.
> 
> Yes, Amanda is run _every_ day, as the above implies, this is my home
> setup.
> 
> I may also have to increase dumpcycle, but I won't know that until I've run
> a few days to get the balance back.

Label them.
Don't change a thing in amanda.conf.
When you want them to appear in the rotation,
 say when current tape #1 is about to be needed,
 insert new tape #21, then #22, ...
After they are introduced, increase tapecycle
 if you want to.

For early clarification (often needed :),
amanda will use new tapes anytime.
If you change tapecycle NOW, amanda
will want the new tapes NOW, not in any
human understandable rotation order.

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