On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 05:12:18PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > * Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004:07:10:17:45:42-0400] scribed: > > On Saturday 10 July 2004 11:46, Michael D Schleif wrote: > <snip /> > > >With this current setup, nine (9) usable tapes, I wonder how best to > > >configure Amanda? Yes, we can manually swap out magazines as > > > necessary; but, we prefer that this site run as automagically as > > > possible. To wit, one magazine and nine tapes -- period. > > > > > >How do you setup similar environments? What happens if a tape is, > > > of a sudden, bad when you need to restore? > > > > > >What do you think? > > > > If it was me, I'd probably get another magazine, put 7 tapes and a > > cleaner in each, and have cron send you a reminder email to change > > the magazine before you do anything else monday mornings. That would > > take a dumpcycle=7, runspercycle=7, tapecycle=14. > > > > Or goto dumpcycle=4,runspercycle=4,and tapecycle=9 and run it every > > night and wear those tapes out in a hurry. But I'm not you, and atm > > don't even have amanda running, I've gotta see if I can make it use > > dvd-+-rw's one of these days. My last DDS2 changer's head died a > > week or so back. > > Yes, I know that this is the ideal solution. > > However, this is an office with naive computer users, and a bunch of > servers. Experience has taught me not to rely too heavily on > non-technical people to change tapes ;> It is more important that we > get a good backup _every_ night, than to have somebody forget to change > the magazine, and go without backups for several days ;< > > Somebody must have already dealt with this scenario, and have a time > worn solution.
Only for technical people like me. Who also can't be relied upon to change magazines once a week and occasionally leave for a week. I have enough holding disk for several weeks. Then when I wake up from my 20 year sleep, I can run amflush ... several times. But I would never plan on having less than 2 dumpcycles in my tapecycle. I ususally try to have 3 or 4 dumpcycles/tapecycle. >>> End of included message <<< -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)