John please forgive my assumptions. But I still don't understand. If tapecycles are defined by number of tapes. How is possible to double runspercycle if its meaurement is in weeks.
*Relizes that he will get slammed for this but still confused* Craig Hancock > In another posting you asked about why it is recommended that tapecycle > be at least 2x runspercycle. The problem is the possible overwriting > of your only level 0 dump of a file system, or a bad dump of your only > level 0. Considering a minimal situation, only 1 tape, doing full backups > each night. Since todays dump overwrites your only dump, if a problem > occurs, you have zero, zilch, nada backups on tape. The same thing could > happen if your dumpcycle >= tapecycle. Your only level 0's could be > overwritten with a bad dump and you would have nothing. Incrementals > are not useful without the level 0 they are increments from. > > -- > Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] > JG Computing > 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 > Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9P+Y5awsElDuSDs0RAgxoAJ40NBfXWSP5dwsRK6AWZRXP6fNm+wCgpWf4 MwLEwsq3TDVGR8ntq3+w65k= =qTeY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
