Greetings, I've just started using Amanda, and so far it looks good, but I do have a few questions regarding how to best set things up.
I started out with this setup: (We have a single tape drive, changing tapes every weekday) dumpcycle 1 weeks runspercycle 5 tapecycle 6 tapes My initial thought was to bring a set of tapes for one week offsite (using no-reuse or something), but on second thought it is probably better to increase thetapecycle and take half the set offsite. Is that a normal strategy for Amanda use? As an experiment, at the end of the first dumpcycle, I decided to let Amanda do its thing with this set of tapes, and see what happened. Of course, Amanda started out with level 0 backups, but when starting a new dumpcycle, this level 0 was overwritten by the incremental. So my amoverview for this partition looks like this: host /partition 1 1 1 2 3 This means that (if I had no other backup) I would be without a lot of older files for this partition. Is this expected behaviour, or maybe a result of too low number of tapes? Should we start with a full archival dump of all file systems? If I increased the number of tapes to e.g. 18 (three weeks plus extras), would that be a more sensible setup? Best, Reidar
