On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 at 9:28am, Morse, Richard E. wrote > Hi! I've been running amanda now for about 5 weeks (23 days, so really 4 > and a half). My dumpcycle is 20 days. Amanda tends to only use about 7% of > the tape. Is there some way I can tell it that I'd much rather it did full > dumps of everything every day (if need be) to get tape usage up to at least > 50%? It's not like the tapes are huge (DDS3 -- 11.5gigs), and I feel that > I'm wasting a lot of tape here...
The quickest way to increase your tape usage is to cut your dumpcycle. Using the same amount of tapes this gives you the two advantages of higher tape usage and greater redundancy. If you've got room (and time in your backup window) for fulls of everything every night, then dumpcycle 0 is the way to go. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
