The whole backup could fit into one tape. I will be doing a fulldump everyday until the end of the month. I will try this tonite with the configuration u suggested. Will i get a level 0 dump everyday? I have no choice but to stick with the labelling, will there be much of a problem if i'd use the "friday1 saturday1"... kinda labelling? --- Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 16 May 2002 at 4:09am, adi adi wrote > > > Hello list, i'm a lil confused abt the dump and > tape > > cycles to put in amanda.conf. This is my > situation. I > > am dumping everyday, 7 days a week. The tapes are > > labelled for week 1 as monday1, tuesday2, > wednesday3 > > and for the second week would be monday2, tuesday2 > and > > so on. Would it be right to put "dumpcycle 4 > weeks" > > "runspercycle 7" "tapecycle 8 tapes" in > amanda.conf. > > Could anyone explain this for me, thanks much. > Btw, i > > have 31 tapes for amanda which i will be > > overwriting every month. > > A "dumpcycle" is the maximum amount of time between > successive full dumps > (level 0s) of any particular disklist entry. > runspercycle is how many > times you are going to run amdump per dumpcycle. > And tapecycle is how > many tapes you are going to use. > > From the numbers above, the only thing I can say for > sure is that your > tapecycle should be 31. You'll have to set > dumpcycle depending on how > much data you have and how big your tapes are. For > example, if all your > data can fit on 7 tapes, then you can use "dumpcycle > 1 week" and > "runspercycle 7". That way you'll have 4 dumpcycles > per tapecycle, which > offers good redundancy. > > Finally, you may want to rethink your tape labels. > Amanda will tell > you which tapes it wants when, and it may not always > "match" the day label > on the tape, which might confuse somebody. > > -- > Joshua Baker-LePain > Department of Biomedical Engineering > Duke University >
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