On Wed, 17 Jul 2002 at 10:21am, Brashers, Bart -- MFG, Inc. wrote

> I did "solve" my previous problem where one 16Gb disk was getting a full
> dump every singe day, by deleting it from my disklist. :( I never figured
> out why it was being dumped every day.

Do you have "record yes" set in your dumptype(s)?  What are dumpcycle, 
tapecycle, runspercycle, and runtapes set to?

> Is there a way I can get amanda to tell me how many tapes I need?  She
> should be able to report how many Gbs of each level there were to be dumped
> each day.

You can look in the amdump.N files for the estimate sizes amanda collects.

> I have about 170Gb of data to be backed up right now, and 22 40Gb DLT8000
> tapes in my tape cycle (2 weeks; 2 tapes per day).  How can I figure out if
> that's enough?

How are you doing the 2 tapes per day?

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

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