On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 at 6:08pm, Sebastian Kösters wrote

> At Sunday we want Amanda to backup on real tapes. These tapes should not be
> overwritten every Sunday. We want to archive the tapes. 
> 
> Now the problem. The Backup on tape works fine. But if I want to restore a
> tape/backup older than the last one this fails. I?am only able to restore
> the last Backup from tape. I wanted to use the same amlabel for every Sunday
> because I don?t want the tapelist file become that long.
>
> In which way I must configure Amanda to backup on tape so I can archive the
> tapes AND can restore every tape?

You can always restore from any amanda tape using amrestore or plain old 
mt and dd.  However, if you want amanda to keep track of your multiple 
archival tapes (thus giving you the ability to use amrecover, just how do 
you expect it to do so *if they all have the same label?*  In short, it 
can't, and so you can't.

> tapecycle 1 tapes  # AMANDA_WEBMIN

The standard archival setup is to use a dumpcycle of 0 and an arbitrarily 
large tapecycle.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University