On Tuesday 31 October 2006 16:12, Steve Wray wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Tuesday 31 October 2006 14:12, Steve Wray wrote:
>>> Dominik Schips wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Am Dienstag, den 31.10.2006, 08:12 +1300 schrieb Steve Wray:
>>>>> Hi there,
>>>>> My amanda backup scripts do an amverifyrun after every run.
>>>>>
>>>>> One of our backup sets is on a tape changer.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry for the questinon, but I also have a tape changer.
>>>>
>>>> How do you do the amverifyrun after the backup if the backup used 2
>>>> tapes?
>>>
>>> It never uses 2 tapes.
>>
>> At your place maybe, but there is not a limit other than practical, to
>> the number of tapes that can be set in "runtapes".
>
>*sigh* ok then, interpret me as saying 'on our installation it never
>uses 2 tapes'. Thats what I meant, ie I can't offer advice as it never
>uses 2 tapes (for me).

Why the big sigh, anyway?  You and I are fairly small fry in the amanda 
world I expect.  My typical backup runs to about 7Gigs & a 200GB drive has 
room for 21 vtapes, my /var partition and some swap thats only been used 
once or twice.

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