On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 at 2:14pm, Luc Lalonde wrote

> I'd like to have a second config called "Monthly".  However, I'm not
> sure what to put as
> values for the above parameters.   Here's what I was able to find from
> various information sources:
>
> dumpcycle 0 weeks
> runspercycle ???????
> tapecycle 1000 tapes
>
> I want to keep the tapes and not overwrite them...hence the high number
> in the tapecyle.  Also, I want full dumps
> everytime.    But what do I put as "runspercycle"?   If I have the

I use "1" in runspercycle for my Archive config.

> "Daily" and "Monthly" running on two seperate configs, what
> will there be conflicts with /etc/dumpdates and /etc/amandates?  Is

In the dumptype for the Monthly config, set 'record no', which will tell
amanda not to update {dump|amanda}dates.

> there an other potential conflicts that I should know about?

If they're going to run at the same time, I would specify different
holding disks for the two configs.  There's a possibility the two
processes could fill the holding space otherwise.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

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