>... I need 11 tapes for 1 week's backup? Seems like too many. ...
The idea is to have enough tapes for two complete dump cycles, so 11
tapes is the recommended number for two weeks.
The reasoning is that you would have (at least) two full dumps of
everything. So if one tape with a full dump of something you want
turns out to be unreadable, you've got another you could use (older,
but better than nothing).
Now, depending your experience as an administrator and how lucky you
feel :-), you can use less than this, or more. There is a lower limit
for you of five, of course, based on runspercycle. But that would make
me very nervous. On that sixth run you are almost certainly wiping out
images you have no other copy of.
For instance, a full dump of clientA:/home may be scheduled for this run,
but the only other copy may be on the tape being written, and as soon as
Amanda starts writing, *all* the previous images on that tape are gone.
So if something goes wrong during the run and the dump is not done,
and then the disk fails, you don't have a usable backup.
>Pam
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
