1. Is it possible to force amanda to use one tape -- writing to it in a contiguious manner (i.e., not overwriting it every dump)?
2. As I am quite new to AMANDA in general I would greatly appreciate any suggestions one could provide in helping me optimize my current configuration. All of the setup information, backup schemes, and configuration files have been added to this post. ------------------------ The Setup ------------------------------- I am currently working in a very small environment consisting of two Red Hat Linux servers, and one windows server. The tape drive is a VXA-2 tape drive and we currently have three v23 Exabyte tapes (~80 gigs). Problem area: I am at school only 3 days out of the week, becuase of this only one tape can be used a week. ------------------------ The backup Scheme ---------------------- 1 tape per week would backup 3 servers. (at least 2 full dumps per week) On the first day of the week (mon) a new tape will be used. +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ + AMANDA.conf + +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ org "CESSDaily" mailto "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" dumpuser "amanda" inparallel 4 netusage 600 Kbps dumpcycle 1 weeks tapecycle 1 tapes bumpsize 20 Mb bumpdays 1 bumpmult 4 etimeout 300 tapedev "/dev/nst0" tapetype v23 labelstr "^CESSDaily[0-9][0-9]*$" holdingdisk hd1 { comment "main holding disk" directory "/var/tmp" use -117 Mb } infofile "/var/lib/amanda/CESSDaily/curinfo" logdir "/var/lib/amanda/CESSDaily" indexdir "/var/lib/amanda/CESSDaily/index" define tapetype v23 { comment "V23 tape used with VXA-2" length 63917 mbytes filemark 3272 kbytes speed 3301 kps } define dumptype global { comment "Global definitions" } Note: Nothing below this line has been edited +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ + disklist + +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ # fooserver1, or 192.168.1.2 (Backup Server) fooserver1 hda3 nocomp-high -1 local fooserver1 hda1 nocomp-high -1 local fooserver1 hda7 nocomp-high -1 local fooserver1 hda8 nocomp-high -1 local fooserver1 hda9 nocomp-high -1 local fooserver1 hda2 nocomp-high -1 local fooserver1 hda5 nocomp-high -1 local fooserver1 hda6 nocomp-high -1 local # fooserver2, or 192.168.1.3 (Backup Client) fooserver2 /dev/sda5 comp-high fooserver2 /dev/sda1 comp-high fooserver2 /dev/sda3 comp-high fooserver2 /dev/sda2 comp-high fooserver2 /dev/sda6 comp-high #Windows server ommited for brevity. Thank you, Anwar __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com