On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 at 2:18pm, Mark Stosberg wrote > I'm interested in some advice on the best way to configure my dump > cycle. This cycle will run once a week and performs full backups. > Every forth week we take one tape out the cycle for archiving and > replace it with a new tape. So is this would this be the optimal > amanda.conf settings for that? > > dumpcycle 28 > runspercycle 4 > tapecycle 4 tapes
Nope -- that won't get you your fulls. But this should: dumpcycle 1 week runspercycle 1 tapecycle 4 tapes. > And then I should mark the 4th tape "no-reuse" ? I'm also not clear of > the best use of that feature as well. Yep, 'amadmin $CONFIG no-reuse $LABEL'. You'll then need to amlabel a new tape. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
