Hi there.
Here's my situation:
I have sets of 4 tapes (one 24 Gb tape + three 2 Gb tapes) to backup my machines.
I'll have 4 runs per cycle corresponding to the 4 weeks of the month, meaning that i
want to have:
1st run (1st week) - full backup using 24 Gb tape
2nd run (2nd week) - incremental backup using 2 Gb tape
3rd run (3rd week) - incremental backup using 2 Gb tape
4th run (4th week) - incremental backup using 2 Gb tape
1st run (1st week) - full backup using 24 Gb tape
2nd run (2nd week) - incremental backup using 2 Gb tape
3rd run (3rd week) - incremental backup using 2 Gb tape
4th run (4th week) - incremental backup using 2 Gb tape
...etc
The problem is that amanda requires to have 1 tape more than the runspercycle value,
meaning that my tape sets must have 5 tapes (one 24 Gb tape + four 2 Gb tapes).
This way, when it reachs the end of the month, when Amanda is going to do a full
backup, it will ask for the 5th tape, that i don't want to use for full backups due to
space constraints.
And finally my question is : How can i tell Amanda to use the 1st tape of the set for
full backups? (in an automatic way, since i know i can do this using amadmin)
Thanks for your attention
