>> On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 at 8:01am, Keith Nasman wrote >> >>> What are the amanda.conf settings (dumpcycle, runspercycle, >>> tapecycle) for getting a full backup each night, five days a week, >>> with a four weeks worth of tapes (20)? >> >> dumpcycle=0,runspercycle=1 (doesn't really matter), tapecycle=20 >> >> -- >> Joshua Baker-LePain >> Department of Biomedical Engineering >> Duke University > > OK, so I have 20 tapes that amanda has backed up to(DailySet[100-119]). > I changed my amanda.conf to dumpcycle=0 and when I run "amadmin <set> > tape" it says then next tape should be a new one. All the tapes in > tapelist have backup dates and are marked "reuse". > > Is there something else I need to do to get amanda to start rotating, > IOW asking for tape 100? > > Thanks, > Keith
It was brought to my attention to double check that there are indeed 20 tapes and somehow one got physically labeled but not amlabeled. Keith