Hey all, I'm setting amanda up for the first time and I had a queston about the optimal setup. We have a Seagate Scorpion autoloader over here where I work, that contains 6 DDS4 tapes(each having a capacity of (20 GB uncompressed/40 GB compressed) or 180GB/240GB.
Now, I have to backup over 70 GB data. We have four sets of these tapes(i.e 6x4), and would like to rotate these tapes every month. I.e. use the tapes for week 1 over again. Right now, I'm just trying to backup the data on the server(a samba share of 70 GB). Now from reading I found out that amanda doesn't span dump images across tapes. So does this mean I need one tape for every day of the week, and two tapes for that one day that a full backup occurs?? What would be the best way to set this up?? A little advice/nudge would be much apperciated. I assume this isn't too atypical of a setup. Apperciate all the help, thanks! Sabir Pasha
