On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 at 10:54am, John Oliver wrote > > > I run amanda each Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday > > > mornings. I do want to get more tapes, so I have a multiple of 5. > > > > Then your dumpcycle should be 1 week and your runspercycle should be 5. > > You'll need more tapes for full redundancy, as mentioned, but you won't > > get the busy Tuesday mornings you are now. > > B-b-but... if I do that with the eight tapes I have now... won't it get > a little wonky at some point?
Not really wonky. You just won't have two full sets of backups on tape at any one time. It's "less safe". -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
