Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>
> On Nov 28, 2000, "Bort, Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > dumpcycle is the maximum number of tapes that AMANDA is allowed to
> > use to insure a complete set of level 0 backups.
>
> Actually, dumpcycle is how often you want to have level 0 backups.
Now I am confused :-)
I thought dumpcycle is the number of days for which AMANDA guarantees
the existence of at least a full backup for each filesystem in the
disklist. That is, for any period of dumpcycle days I choose, AMANDA
ensures (if the other parameters have been reasonably chosen) that for
every filesystem in the disklist there exists at least one full backup
of it that was done in that period. Letting dumpcycle tend to 0 (thus
needing some other parameters, such as runspercycle, to tend to
infinity...), you get "dense" set of level 0 backups whose cardinality
is certainly not 0...
:-)
I think that by writing "how often" above, you meant a "period" in
wave-theoretic terms - but I understood a "frequency", which is its
mathematical inverse.
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