Hi! Chris Marble wrote: > > Martin Oehler wrote: > > > > I use amanda on a solaris 7 box with a DTL drive (20 GB) > > attached. My dumpcyle is 4 weeks with 20 runs per cycle. > > > > Because the size of one incremental backup is only > > between 2-4 GB I don't want to change the tape each day. > > You could crank your dumpcycle down to 3 (or whatever number would get > Amanda to use most of your tape capacity).
Hmmm, I didn't want to use a constant value because it can happen that there is a 8 GB or 10 GB incremental backup. Is there a way I can calculate the needed size on tape (approx.) before the backup process starts? CU, thanks Martin
