I have a similar setup. I have HW compression turned off on the drive (HP DAT24X6 changer).
In my monthly config: dumpcycle 0 weeks runspercycle 1 tapecycle 1000 tapes runtapes 3 Also, record is turned off so my normal daily amanda config does not think the level 0 has been completed after the monthly. We never re-use our monthly tapes we send them offsite and leave them so thats why I have it set to 1000. We use between 2-3 tapes on a monthly run so runtapes is at 3. Scott... Scott R. Burns NETCON Technologies Incorporated Suite 135 - 4474 Blakie Road London, Ontario, Canada N6L 1G7 Voice: +1.519.652.0401 Fax: +1.519.652.9275 Web: www.netcontech.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 12:01 PM To: Amanda List Subject: My Monthly archive config - issue Hi again Its that time for a monthly archive backup I have currently 80GB server and using a DAT DDS-4 20GB native 40GB compression I am aware that I cannot have both hardware compression and software compression on So Amanda usually behaviour is to have hardware compression turned off using the mt command. Thus my amanda.conf is as follows I want a full dump for archiving and this tape will pulled out. dumpcycle 4 weeks # the number of days in the normal dump cycle runspercycle 2 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days # (4 weeks * 5 amdump runs per week -- just weekdays) tapecycle 12 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation to pull each monthly tape for archiving. runtapes 1 # number of tapes to be used in a normal run. Should I increase runtapes to 2 to ensure that I backup at a minimum 40GB. Also should I amend dumpcycle to dumpcycle 0 weeks for a full dump and not incremental. Please advice of the best setup to backup for a monthly archive. Cheers -- Unix/ Linux Systems Administrator Chuck Amadi The Surgical Material Testing Laboratory (SMTL), Princess of Wales Hospital Coity Road Bridgend, United Kingdom, CF31 1RQ. Email chuck.smtl.co.uk Tel: +44 1656 752820 Fax: +44 1656 752830
