On Jan 22, 2001, Gerhard den Hollander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It looks like amanda tries to squeeze exactly 1 0 dump for each filesystem
> in a dumpcycle.
Yep. dumpcycle specifies how often you want full backups. tapecycle
specifies how many tapes you have. If you want more than one full
backup of each disk in your tapecycle, tapecycle must be at least
twice as long as runspercycle (= dumpcycle, if you run Amanda every
day) times runtapes (= 1 by default).
> If I have a 10 day dumpcycle, (T1 .. T10)
This means tapecycle should be 10 tapes.
> and set my dumpcycle to 5,
> and at day 6 I can reuse T1 which is not what I want.
Nope. If you set dumpcycle to 5, you'll get one backup every 5 days,
regardless of tapecycle. If you set tapecycle to 10, you won't be
able to reuse a tape before overwriting other 9 tapes, regardless of
dumpcycle.
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