On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 05:46:45PM +0200, Sebastian Kösters wrote: >> I forgot to say. >> >> I did that because my backup size is between 40 and 160 GB each tape, >>every >> day. So i set it to 300 to guarantee that the end of the tape is never >> reached and that i do not get the error "tape full". >> >> Hope you unterstand what i mean >> >> >Hi, >> > >> >all together i have 2 TB. >> > >> >I use 8 configs (4 with 14 tapecycles each and 4 with 1 tapecycle each). >> > >> >In each config i told amanda to use a maximum of 300GB. >> >
>OK, I'm confused. > >A typical amanda installation has a single config, not 8. >Maybe a second one for special purposes, like off-site archives. >But seldom (?never?) 8. > >What do you mean by a config? > > >A tapecycle of 1 is never a good idea. It means as soon as you start >a backup, you are destroying the only backup you have of those data. > >-- >Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] > JG Computing > 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 > Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) With config i mean the amanda.conf files in the subdirectorys in /etc/amanda I have 8 of this sudirectorys. I did that to seperate the backups. 1 config is for non-critical machines (low netusage, incrementel, tapecycle 14) 1 config is for our high-critical mashines (high netusage, incrementel, tapecycle 14) 1 config is specialy for our Outlook PST files on a seperate "PST-Server" (incrementel, about 100GB for a Level 0 Backup) 1 config is only for our samba Servers which have critical data saved on their hdd´s so they are very critical too. This 4 Backups run every weekday. The other 4 configs are the "same" as above but they only do a Level 0 Backup of every Server only on Saturday. I splitted it into 8 configs to seperate the disklists, netusage.... Which tapecycle should i set? 2 or more?
