Thanks for the advise I will pursue your tip. Cheers
Chuck On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 04:02 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 08:24:02AM +0100, chuck.amadi wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I have recently changed my amanda.conf file dump cycle to 4 weeks in a > > attempt to get more out on my DDS-4 20gb tapes but I will have a more > > difficult amrestore > > > > I have read and digested that a typical dumpcycle entry is 7 to 14 days > > thus 1 or 2 weeks even though my amanda is working ok would it be ok to > > changed the dumpcycle to 2 weeks and will this effect my amdumps. > > >From amanda's perspective no problem. > > But consider it from your logistics. All of a sudden, in a single dump, > all the level 0's from half your old dumpcycle become due the same day. > Also, the next one or two dumpcycles are liable to have lots of unbalanced > days as amanda tries to rebalance to the new dumpcycle period. > > If you can handle a massive dump that day and won't be uncomfortable with > some days with little and some with a lot of data for a while, just make > the change in a single jump. Otherwise, perhaps you can change it in > several steps. 4->3->2 weeks or 28->24->20->16->14 days. >
