On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 02:25:03PM -0400, David Chin wrote: > > However, I seem to be having trouble with this. I've been running with a 7 > tape tapecycle, and a dumpcycle of 5 days, and runspercycle of 5days. I > recently changed it to (9 tapes, 7 days, 7 days). After modifying the > config on Sunday (before the level 0 was to be made), I forced level 0 > backups. Unfortunately, the force didn't work. (No, not in the Star Wars > sense, either.) > > My less-frequently-changing filesystems get dumped at level 1, but > /home keeps getting dumped at level 2; the last level 1 was on Sat May 25.
Once the level goes to a higher number I believe it will not go back to a lower level until the next level 0. > > Ach. I guess I have a general question: What's the right procedure to > switch backup configs in the way that I describe above, i.e. changing the > cycle periods. I don't see what problems you expect. Nor do I see anything else to do except make the config change and introduce the new tapes. BTW runspercycle is unitless, not 7days, just 7. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
