On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 at 9:59am, Tom Brown wrote >> I need to backup data to an HP autoloader, it needs to be *full* backups >> each time so using Amanda doesn’t make sense. >> >> Can someone point me to what utilities to use to access the autoloader, I >> would rather read up on this myself as my knowledge here is very weak. I am >> moving this unit from a windows environment running Backup Exec. I know all >> of those features won’t be available but I was hoping to control in some >> predictable manner what tapes are used in what order to effectively >> partition the loader. >> > > i would still use amanda for this - that was she can look after the tape > order etc and she can control mtx to use the robot. > > in the amanda.conf just have the number of tapes set to 1 so that she knows > each night has to be a complete level0 or in your disk list state level0 > every time. 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. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF