Re: How to tell afbackup to reuse tapes

Turbo Fredriksson <[email protected]> 04 Feb 2004 10:12:41 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.afbackup.general
Organization Bah!
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> "Justin" == Justin Rush <[email protected]> writes:

    Justin> I have now had afbackup going for 5 weeks.  I have 5
    Justin> tapes, one is being used each week.  There is one full
    Justin> backup on the first day a tape is placed in the drive and
    Justin> then incremental backups all other days.  I am now back to
    Justin> useing tape number 1, however afbackup knows that there is
    Justin> some free space on other tapes.  How do I tell it to reuse
    Justin> tape 1 ( and then tape 2 next week, tape 3 the week after,
    Justin> etc )?

I'm not absolutely sure (I've configured once almost a year ago, so I
don't exactly remember why/what I did :) but I _think_ one, all more
some of these might help:

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