Okay, our backup plan, with major thanks to you guys, and especially John
R. Jackson, is ready to go into daily operation. I _do_ have some "daily
use" questions that I just couldn't get answered in the FAQ, or on "the
chapter".
First, some background... I'm using a 22-tape changer on a linux box, and
using two tapes per run...
Here are some salient amanda.conf entries for the daily:
netusage 25000 Kbps
dumpcycle 2 weeks
runspercycle 10
tapecycle 22 tapes
runtapes 2
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Now, I run amcheck and amdump in a cron job M-F for 2 weeks. That's 20
tapes with 2 tapes for error. I've labeled all the tapes daily-01 through
daily-22 on the cartridge that's in the tape machine now. Some thoughts,
please correct me if I'm wrong:
- I assume amdump will grab a new tape when it needs it... ie, the first
dump is on daily-01 and daily-02. I don't manually need to advance to
daily-03 for tonights dump.
- At the end of the second week, do I swap a new set of 22 tapes in, or
can I start reusing daily-01? I'm not entirely clear on how this works,
as it's a little different than anything I've ever used. If I start
reusing, do I risk losing data?
- I figure I can do archivals like "the chapter" says. Any other pointers?
Thanks for clearing these last few things up...
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