Hi, 

After all the testing, I have decided upon a basic
Amanda configuration for my requirements. I have 20
tapes with me that I plan to rotate every 4 weeks. I
plan to configure Amanda to take full backup once a
week. The backup will executed only on the 5 week
days. So, as per my understanding my amanda.conf
should have 
the following parameters

dumpcycle 1 week
runspercycle 5 
tapecycle 20 tapes
runtapes 1

I would be grateful if anybody could confirm whether
the above parameters are good enough. I am
particularly confused with the "tapecycle" parameter.
The amanda.conf man page states that "The  number of
tapes in rotation must be larger than the number of
tapes required for a complete dump cycle.  It is
considered good administrative practice to set the
tapecycle           parameter slightly lower than the
actual number of tapes  in rotation." 

So what is a proper value for the tapecycle parameter
in my case?

Thanks in advance.

Yogesh




 
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