Re: adding tapes to cycle



Brandon Metcalf wrote:

I am currently using the following default settings:

  dumpcycle 4 weeks
  runspercycle 20
  tapecycle 25 tapes

If wanted to, say, have an 8 week dumpcycle could I simply add and label 25 
tapes and change the parameters above to

  dumpcycle 8 weeks
  runspercycle 40
  tapecycle 50 tapes

and expect Amanda to do the right thing?


Short answer: Yes. Of course.

A bit more: You can change your configuration and then feed it a fewmore tapes at a time until you reach your full number of tapes. As longas it has a new labeled tape each time it wants one, it will continue towork. When you run out of new labeled tapes, then there need to beenough tapes that there will be an old one that can be re-used.Typically, you have a few more tapes than specified in tapecycle. Ifruntapes is greater than 1, then you need more -- see:http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Tapecycle.



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