On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Andre Brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've configured our tape backup with amanda a few weeks ago. Everything is > fine - the backup is done every night without any problems. The problem is, > that our office is closed from time to time. And if the tape isn't changed, > amanda waits until the right tape is inserted and after that the backup > starts. Is it possible to configure amanda to anyway start the backup and > use the holding disk although right the tape isn't inserted? So that, for > example, one or two backup jobs are written to disk and after the tape were > inserted, they will be written to tape?
I assume you're using chg-manual? There are some timeout knobs you can turn in that script, which are set to very long durations (days) by default. If you dial those down to, say, a few hours, and make sure that when you *are* present, you change the tapes within that time, you should be OK. By the way, even while Amanda is waiting for a tape, it is spooling dumps to holding disk. If you know the days the office will be unstaffed, you can also run amdump Conf -o tapedev= -o tpchanger= to avoid even requesting a tape. Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
