On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 at 12:21pm, Joseph L. Casale wrote
Actually, you would use "dumpcycle 0" to get amanda to do full backups every run. tapecycle should still be set to however >many tapes you have -- anything other than that and you lose amanda's ability to track the tapes for you.
After reading through all the replies, it might be simple enough to use Bacula or Amanda. I had never seen Bacula before, and I have not found detailed info for Amanda and Autoloaders (Never used Amanda before).
The amanda changer script for use with mtx is chg-zd-mtx. In that file itself you'll find instructions on how to set it up -- it's rather straightforward.
What is simpler to use, Bacula or Amanda? Depending on that, I will look into either of those solutions.
I'm not really sure that one is easier than the other -- both have a learning curve. I lean (rather heavily) towards amanda because of its scheduling capabilities, but you're not intending to use those. The other nice thing about amanda is the ability to get to your backed up data in the complete absence of the amanda tools. You can use basic *nix utilities (mtx, mt, dd, and tar or restore) to get the bits off of your backup media, which is rather handy in disaster scenarios.