-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 23.01.2007 at 01:16 -0600, Frank Smith wrote:
> > Thanks for the reply. So if I only have one DLE, will the full > > backup always take place on a particular day and will only > > incremental backups be taken on the remaining days? Or will it be > > handled in some different way? > > dumpcycle is just the maximum time between fulls. Amanda often > schedules them sooner if it thinks it will level out daily tape usage. > I don't know how it handles a single DLE, as that is not really what > it was designed for. That's correct: although AMANDA is still a convenient tool to use in this context. If the original poster's full backup fits on to a single tape, and backs up in a reasonable period of time, you could just do a full backup every day, perhaps? Dave. - -- Dave Ewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit Cancer Research UK / Oxford University PGP: CC70 1883 BD92 E665 B840 118B 6E94 2CFD 694D E370 Get key from http://www.ceu.ox.ac.uk/~davee/davee-ceu-ox-ac-uk.asc N 51.7518, W 1.2016 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFtc4EbpQs/WlN43ARAgoTAJ94KEtTaGxUGHJBswxc8zJiwxM+dgCg4f/6 ndjziD7s1zQjV0BxcnytW3M= =PtTy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
