On 2008-03-11 17:57, Arthur Smith wrote:

Thanks!  I want to be sure I understand correctly:

I have 10 tapes, labeled monday1, tuesday1, etc.. through friday2. I should now be able to recreate the tapelist file like so:

0 monday1 reuse
0 tuesday1 reuse

and so on, and amanda will use them in the order they are put in, correct? As if they were actually new tapes (even though they're not)...

Am I on track?

You are on track about the format of the tapelist file but
falling off on the other side of the track when choosing the tape
labels.  :-)

It's not a good idea to label the tapes "monday" etc, unless you
are 100% sure that backup on each day succeed, and you never
take a day off or forget to switch tapes.

The first time the backups from e.g. monday are not on that tape
the tapes get out of sequence.

That can happen because you forgot it insert it, or because the
server crashed, or you need that tape to flush the holdingdisk on
the previous day, or you need to keep one tape aside because it
contains a full backup of a server that crashed, and you're
waiting for the new disks to arrive, etc.  (And I probably
forgot another 100 reasons...)

Just number them  "Daily-01" etc.

My 0.02€ advice.



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