On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 12:57:15PM -0400, Jason Greenberg wrote:
> You'll have to excuse my newbieness for this one, if you would...
>
> If I have a dumpcycle of 7 days, with 7 runs per cylce, I understand
> that I will have a full backup every 7 days. So, if that's the case,
> here are my questions:
>
> 1) How many tapes are used for these 7 runs? 7? or just 1?
> 2) does the tape change after every dumpcycle or every run?
> 3) I have 15 tapes, and
> I would like to use 1 tape per week, with 15 weeks of total history.
In that case, use a different backup program.
Unless you only plan to backup (run amdump) once a week. Then:
dumpcycle 1 wk # maybe 0
runspercycle 1
runtapes 1
tapecycle 15
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