I have an alternative suggestion for you. I've got two different conf's, one for my regular weekly rotational stuff, and one called "Archives" for my permanent archives.
Whenever I want to make a permanent backup of my systems, I just run a dump of the Archives conf, that way I don't have to mess around with trying to make permanents out of my daily rotationals. Michael Martinez > -----Original Message----- > From: Toralf Lund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 10:04 AM > To: Amanda Mailing List > Subject: What tapecycle value to use? > > > I've never been quite able to figure out what value to use > for tapecycle. > > I expect to run backups on first 4 days of week, so I've set > runspercycle 4 > > Tapes are labelled > Mon-1 > Tue-1 > ... > Mon-2 > ... > ... > Thu-4 > > After the fourth "weekly set", the first one is reused, then > the 2nd and > 3rd. Set 4 is special, however - I don't want to reuse those > tapes, but > rather store them in a safe place and replace them with new > ones. So after > sets 1-4 are written, then sets 1-3 once more, I want to be able to do > > amlabel ... Mon-4 > amlabel ... Tue-4 > > without being told that those tapes are already active. What > exactly do I > set "tapecycle" to in order to allow this? > -- > - Toralf >
