Re: Optimizing AMANDA in a small environment (1 vxa tape-drive, 3exabyte [80gig] tapes, 3 servers)

2003-07-01 Thread Paul Bijnens
Anwar Ruff wrote: What I want to do is use one tape a week/dumpcycle. Yet, If I were to use one tape per dumpcycle would AMANDA overwrite the tape from one day to the next. (i.e., If AMANDA backed up 3 servers on Monday to one tape, would it rewind and overwrite that tape during Tuesdays dump?)

Re: Optimizing AMANDA in a small environment (1 vxa tape-drive, 3exabyte [80gig] tapes, 3 servers)

2003-06-27 Thread Paul Bijnens
Anwar Ruff wrote: 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)? Currently not. That's by design. Now and then people come in and want such a feature to be added, but nobody ever had the energy to add such a featu