On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 01:06:38PM -0600, Graeme Humphries wrote: > On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 20:57 +0200, Gregor Ibic wrote: > > yes. should it be 2 ? > > It should be the number of tapes you have in a cycle, AFAIK. > > > But I want to use everyday full backups on new tapes, in cycle of > > reusable tapes
Clarify a minor language problem here. "new tapes" and "reusable tapes" don't seem to go hand-in-hand. After a day's backup, will the tapes go into an archive, never to be used again? Or can amanda uses them again at some future time after a number of tapes have already been used? > So you want full backups every day, onto a different tape every day? > > I'd think the easiest way to set this up would be to set tapecycle to > the number of tapes you have in rotation, or the number of tapes your > changer can hold, and then use the dumptype option "strategy noinc". Rather than 'strategy noinc', to get a level 0 backup each run use 'dumpcycle 0'. I'm pretty sure 'noinc' will simply skip the incrementals between level 0's. I use 'noinc' for directories of CD images. They never change, why bother with incrementals. Gregor, if you want to loop through a set of tapes, never overwriting any of them until all have been used, then set tapecycle to the number of tapes you have in the rotation. For example, if you have 10 tapes and set tapecycle to 10, amanda will not reuse the first tape until after it has used 10 tapes. Amanda will use new tapes anytime. But it is restricted from reusing a tape until at least tapecycle other tapes have been used. So if you set tapecycle to 1, amanda is free to use any other tape immediately. If you really mean to use fresh tapes each run, then set tapecycle to some monsterously high number, say 100000. At 2 tapes per day it will be a long time before it is allowed to reuse the first. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
