That is what I was thinking about doing initally..but I was concerned with introducing tapes into the rotation for my expected full backup (of the archive variety)....I'm assuming that you don't add them arbitrairlly into your tapelist...
I would guess that you add them before you do a full backup and once that backup is complete you mark them as no-reuse and remove....have you ever had any issues about doing a restore from those tapes by chance???? Is that the approach that you follow??? Gotta ask the silly questions..... Don Stephen Carville wrote: >I have to create both weekly and monthly archives that go offsite. I >just use amadmin to force a full backup on the appropiate day. I set >whatever tapes were used as no-reuse and, if necessary, add >replacements into the rotation. Because the monthly tapes never >rotate back in, every so often I go in and remove them from the >tapelist by hand. The weekly fulls rotate on a four week cycle so I >mark them as reuse when I put them back into the changer magazine. > >On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Don Potter wrote: > >- Okay..I know the virtues of amanda allowing it to do all of the backup >- scheduling itself (full and incremental), and I think that it is really >- kewl..... >- >- BUT.....when your client base is used to 1st of the month full-backups I >- have to adjust acordingly (so sayeth the boss man). >- >- That being said (and trying to apease the group that I support) could I >- do the following and obtain that same effect: >- >- dumpcycle 31 days >- runspercycle 31 days (daily backups.....weekends included) >- tapecycle 31 tapes >- >- I have a 6 slot tapechanger so I will be changing the tapes at the end >- cycle and putting in new tapes. I can do a amadmin Daily force of all >- my hosts and filesystems initally and take those tapes out of rotation, >- and at the end of the tapecycle (I'm assuming I wouldn't need to do a >- amadmin Daily no-reuse since they won't be in the changer at all) and >- once the first of the month rolls around do the force again and once >- again pull those tapes out of rotation. The level 0 would be out of the >- rotation for basically forever. >- >- Does this sound viable????? >- >- BTW...this is an inital implementation... >- >- Don >- >- >- >- >
