first time rotating tapes with Amanada

Subject:	first time rotating tapes with Amanada
From:	"Gil Vidals" <gvidals AT gmail DOT com>
To:	amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date:	Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:09:09 -0800

I'm new to Amanda and I'm preparing to rotate tapes for the first time. I have an autoloader that holds 10 tapes all under the amanda.conf as DailySet1. And I just ordered 10 more (new) tapes, but I'm not clear as to when do I pull out tapes and put in the new ones???

I currently have these dump cycle settings and my intention is for the fulls to occur every 5 days
dumpcycle 5 days
runspercycle 5
tapecycle 10 tapes

My crontab is set to run each day at the same time. /etc/crontab:
45 16 * * 1-7 amanda amcheck -m DailySet1
59 23 * * 1-7 amanda amdump DailySet1

Questions:
1) Do I unload all 10 tapes?
     a) if yes, then do I create a DailySet2???
     b) if no, then which ones?

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