On Friday 29 November 2002 07:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >First, thanks for your detailed opinion. You are right I could use > 40 tapes in the config but then I would like to have at least a > dump level 0 once per week, so how would I acheive that, I mean > which config options in my amanda.conf to use ? is something like > that correct: > >dumpcycle 5 days >runspercycle 5 >tapecycle 40 >runtapes 2 > >also what's the strategy to adopt when the set of 8 tapes is > finished, take it offsite and relabel the next ones ? Or should I > label all 40 tapes in one go ? > >Regards >Marc
Relabel them all in one go, and forget the labeling until such time as a tape is damaged and becomes unusable. In modern drives, that will be quite some time, I have 50 some passes on some of my DDS2 tapes right now, and the drive hasn't blinked its leds for a cleaning now in several months. No miss-fires. And the wife smokes! Are you intending to just run amanda mon-fri, but not on the weekends? In that case then dumpcycle should be 7 days or 1 week, its interchangeable. [...] -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.19% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
