On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 10:22:31AM -0700, Soo Hom wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want more level 0 dumps in the tapecycle. Currently we get about 2
> level 0's every six weeks.
>
>
> dumpcycle 6 weeks
> tapecycle 30 tapes
>
> tapedev "/dev/nrst0"
> tapetype SDT10000
>
> infofile "/var/amanda/eceadm/curinfo"
> indexdir "/var/amanda/eceadm/index"
> logdir "/var/amanda/eceadm"
>
> labelstr "VOL[1-6][1-5]*$"
>
> If I change the number of tapes from 30 to 40 and the dumpcycle to 4 weeks
> will this result in more than 2 level 0's per tapecycle?
>
>
> dumpcycle 4 weeks
> tapecycle 40 tapes
Question 1. What is the LONGEST interval between level 0's you want?
Right now you are saying 6 weeks. Getting more than 1 every
6 weeks is not certain. Only that you will get at least 1.
Setting dumpcycle to 4 weeks only makes certain you get
at least 1 every 4 weeks.
Set it to 1 week and you will get at least 1 every week.
Question 2. How frequently do you run amdump? It appears to be 5 times a week.
You should set runspercycle to the number of amdump runs per dump
cycle. If you set dumpcycle to 2 weeks and do 5 dumps per week,
runspercycle should be 10.
The number of tapes does not affect the other parameters. But it should be
greater than runspercycle. Usually by a factor of 2 or 3 or 4 or... depending
on how many cycles you wish to keep in case of problems.
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