On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 at 12:40pm, Adolfo Manuel Pach�n Rodr�guez wrote

> I have 5 tapes for one HP24DAT SCSI unit. I want to use one tape per day, 
> not including saturday/monday.
> 
> Is this the correct configuration?
> 
> dumpcycle 7 days
> runspercycle 5 days
> tapecycle 5 tapes  

Yep.  Except, as I mentioned, a couple of spare tapes in your tapecycle 
would be a really good idea.  What if, say, the drive eats on of your 
tapes (or there's some write error).  Whatever was on that tape is gone, 
and it may very well be your only level 0 of a particular filesystem.

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

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