>dumpcycle 1 weeks >runspercycle 5 >tapecycle 6 tapes >... >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.
Could you give some more detail? First, what version of Amanda? Second, did Amanda go through all six tapes? The way you have it set up above, assuming one tape per day, it should have used the first five tapes in the first week, then used the sixth tape at the start of the second week, and only then gone back to the first tape (on the second day of the second week). >... So my amoverview for this partition looks like this: > >host /partition 1 1 1 2 3 Were there really only five entries on a line? When I run it, I get the same number of entries as tapecycle is set to. What happens if you run "amadmin <config> find <host> </partition>"? >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 ... That's clearly bad and it should not have happened. >If I increased the number of tapes to e.g. 18 (three weeks plus >extras), would that be a more sensible setup? The general suggestion is that you have at least twice as many tapes as your dumpcycle. That way, even if the most recent level 0 is bad, you have at least one more you can fall back on. >Reidar John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
