On Friday 13 April 2007, Rodrique Heron wrote:
>When using the "tapetype HARD-DISK", how do I rotate a full vtape ?
>Will Amanda overwrite the vtape ?

Yes, when it has used up the tapecycle of vtapes.

>Reading through the documentation, I learned that amanda would not
>overflow the backup onto another tape. Is this still true ? I have
>440G dedicated to vtapes, my largest partition to be backed up is 80G.
>Should I make my tape vtapes 90G in size ? The setup I have in mind,
>would create 25 vtapes at 17G each, but I am worried about the
>overflow issue.
>
>Thanks

I'm much smaller, about 45GB of data, with a 295GB disk reservation for 
vtapes, 20 of them, with a 4 day dumpcycle and runspercycle.  The 'tapesize' 
is about 12GB.  Only occasionally does a backup run take more than 2 hours.

The 4 day dumpcycle vs the 20 tapecycle means I can backup at least 4 
dumpcycles to recover something should I discover its missing something.

If I should worry about real archival, then there is the occasional dvd I burn 
of the precious directories.

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