On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 09:46:14AM +0200, Patrick Schumacher wrote: > hi again... > i need a little help in setting up my dumpcycles. > i want to do backups over a period of 4 or 8 weeks with a full dump once per > week (monday). > is it right, that the length of the backup-period has nothing mutch do do > with the length of the dumpcycle and the runspercycle? > > so: > dumpcycle 7 days # > # > runspercycle 7 # hmmm, the 8 run is a full dump amd the cycle starts > again?? > # > tapecycle 75 tapes # 56 tapes normal. ok, i need 2 tapes for the full > # dumps and some tapes for errors > # > runtapes 2 # if we need 2 tapes for the full dump, the changer >takes > # the next tape > > seems to be a good configuration for my need's. > any other sugestions??
Looks pretty good if you generally will only need 1 tape daily. HOWEVER!!!! If you are using amanda as it was designed, your full backups will NOT be done on Monday. They will be spread over Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
