On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 18:08, Brandon Moro wrote: > Here's where the problem is (unless you see one above that I have > overlooked). I send the tapes from the last week of every month offsite for > 1 year. Can I arrange the tapecycle in such a way that I can get amanda to > recognize a tape as being eligible to overwrite even though it is not in > chronological order (that is, tape 8 may still be offsite for a year, but > tape 24 has come back from a 6 week offsite cycle and I want to use it > again)? What should I expect to happen when I try this method? Will I have > to set up a second config (ex: DailySet2) and run this second config with > its own set of tapes and run it during the last week of every month?
Amanda doesn't care about tape order. You can add new tapes any time (as long as their label matches the regexp you've specified) and any tape which doesn't have a dump on it we're supposed to be keeping is eligible to be used anytime.
