Amanda-Users

Re: Can tapes be grouped for different types of back-up?

2005-02-13 18:30:00
Subject: Re: Can tapes be grouped for different types of back-up?
From: Gavin Henry <ghenry AT suretecsystems DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 22:06:47 +0000
On Sunday 13 Feb 2005 21:43, you wrote:
> Until recently I had a DDS3 tape streamer. Then it broke down a few
> weeks ago and I bought a DDS4 tape streamer. I therefore have a lot of
> DDS3 tapes which I like to use for incremental back-ups because the new
> tape streamer can also handle DDS3 tapes. I will then ear mark the DDS4
> tapes for full back-ups. Is that possible and how can that be
> accomplished?

Hi.

Create two different amanda.conf and then you have two groups of tapes 
labelled for the different sets.

But please read:

http://www.amanda.org/docs/topten.html#id2519312

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