Cheers I will use for Daily dumps 5 tapes two for errors dumpcycle 0 runspercycle 1 tapescycle 7
For monthlys 12 month tapes and two for errors dumpcycle 0 runspercycle 1 tapescycle 14 Is this a better rotation cycle for Daily and Monthly backups. Thanx On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 10:07 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 10:19:16AM +0100, Chuck Amadi wrote: > > Hi all > > > > 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 > > This part of amanda doesn't want to know about cleaning tapes. > Only tapes it will write to. > > > > > 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) > > I don't understand why you use 0,1 above and 1,0 here. > Probably 0,1 is appropriate for both. > > -- Unix/ Linux Systems Administrator The Surgical Material Testing Laboratory (SMTL), Princess of Wales Hospital Coity Road Bridgend, United Kingdom, CF31 1RQ. Tel: +44 1656 752820 Fax: +44 1656 752830
