--On Friday, October 11, 2002 09:56:46 +0200 Toralf Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 01:38:18PM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote: >> > > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 04:53:55PM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote: >> > > >> > > - As was mentioned earlier, your tapes won't stay synchronized to the >> > > calendar. If Monday is a holiday and the tape doesn't get switched, >> > > amanda will ask for the Monday tape on Tuesday. >> > >> > Doesn't really matter. The day names are just meant to make it easier >> for >> > the person managing the tapes (not me) to know which one to bring. I >> > thought about using labels of the form <week no>.<run no> or simple >> > sequencing, but I decided that would be more confusing. >> >> Your confusion level may vary from mine and from the person managing the >> tapes. >> I would certainly be confused when amanda needs a tape labeled Monday on >> Wednesday. > Well, I may be wrong, but I'm assuming that would be the case only if an exceptional >event that would have to be addressed anyway, occured. It doesn't happen often, but sooner or later you will have a tape failure, power failure, wrong tape loaded, unexpected reboot, or whatever that will get your names out of sync. What happens when your data grows enough that you need to increase runtapes to 2 ? > >> Trust the collective experience of the list, they will get out of your >> planned sequence. > I still find it hard to convince myself that a simple sequencing number, like most >people suggest, would be better. OK, but don't say we didn't warn you ;-). Frank -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
