On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 12:57:15PM -0400, Jason Greenberg wrote: > > 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?
7 x runtapes (which is the number of tapes used per run) > 2) does the tape change after every dumpcycle or every run? After every run - amanda is a backup solution for people who are serious about backing up their data, and that means that you don't put a number of backups one after the other on one tape. > 3) I have 15 tapes, and I would like to use 1 tape per week, with 15 > weeks of total history. What would the dumpcycle / runspercycle config > be? You can't do that, or at least not with the above spec. You could have dumpcycle 7 days and runspercycle 1 but you probably don't want to do that :-) (because you'd only be backing up once per week) With 15 tapes, assuming that you backup on weekdays only, and have sufficient tape capacity, you'll get only three weeks history. Regards, Niall O Broin *** Qmail-Scanner Envelope Details Begin *** X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" via maat.reeusda.gov X-Qmail-Scanner-Rcpt-To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.12 (hbedv: 2.0.3/vdf=6.14.0.3 Clear:. Processed in 1.257272 secs) *** Qmail-Scanner Envelope Details End ***
