On Monday 21 May 2007 13:54, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > Jordan Desroches wrote: > > I'm trying to figure out how to set backup retention, and was > > wondering if it was as simple as making sure the number of tapes a > > configuration has to use allows it to cycle through N times, or if > > there is an actual "set retention" command I haven't found? > > It's in the relationships among (taking from my configuration): > > dumpcycle 1 weeks # the number of days in the normal dump cycle > runspercycle 5 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days > tapecycle 30 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation
Actually, dumpcycle and runspercycle don't affect the retention policy; they only affect the choices Amanda makes about what levels to dump at. The gory details of Amanda's retention policy can be found here: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Taper_scan_algorithm Cheers, --Ian -- Zmanda: Open Source Backup and Recovery. http://www.zmanda.com
