On Dec 1, 2000, Chris Karakas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 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.
Think of `dumpcycle 7 days' as ``I want one full backup every 7
days''. So, yes, dumpcycle is a period.
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