On 2006-08-18 16:06, Fabio Corazza wrote:

Cyrille Bollu wrote:

No. Amanda does not allow appending dumps on a same cartidge. That's by
design.

Neither can I put all the full dumps into the same cartridge? Since full
dumping a server would require around 10/20GB, the cartridge would be
almost empty!

Read this page why Amanda does it that way:

http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Why_does_Amanda_not_append_to_a_tape%3F

In the same page is also a "plan B" described if you have indeed
invested all your money in an expensive tape drive and you have no
budget left to buy cartridges...

One more improvement to that "plan B":
When using  Amanda 2.5.1 or later, you can override some parameters
from amanda.conf on the commandline.  Using this method you can
run with a non-existing tape device in "amanda.conf" instead of
not inserting a tape, and once a week run with the real tapedevice
specified on the cmd line:
   "amdump -o tapedev=/dev/nst0"

(Note 2.5.1 is currently in beta test.)

I think personally that is a waste of space using a single 400GB
cartridge for every full dump. I'd rather use the same cartridge for
every all the server...

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