On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 at 10:19am, Chuck Amadi wrote > Has anyone got examples of a daily backup configuration > and archive configuration for last Friday of the month. > > I am going to use 5 tapes for monday to friday that I will reuse. > Thus do a full backup every day. > > dumpcycle 0 weeks > > runspercycle 1 > > tapecycle 8 # two for errors and one for cleaning cartridge
Don't count the cleaning cartridge in tapecycle -- only tapes that will actually hold data. > For monthlys Full dump: > > dumpcycle 1 # the number of days in the normal dump cycle > # (full backup at start of month, automatically) > runspercycle 0 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days > # (0 means identical to dumpcycle) > tapecycle 12 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation 12 for 12 months runspercycle should be 1. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
