Re: Tape Cycle calculations

2003-02-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 09:08 am, Alex Page wrote: >I'm setting up an amanda system, and I'm a little confused by the >jargon. What I'm trying to do is one full backup a week (on > Fridays) and partial backups every other weeknight. I want to > operate four weeks of tapes in rotation, so at a

Re: Tape Cycle calculations

2003-02-19 Thread Russell Adams
I have a neat setup going along that line, though not quite what you want. I've got 20 DAT (120M) tapes for my home fileserver, used for weekly backups. I have a dump cycle of 7 days, with 1 run per cycle, and 20 tapes in the tapecycle.. So I give amanda a tape once a week on the weekend. I over

Re: Tape Cycle calculations

2003-02-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 02:08:05PM +, Alex Page wrote: > I'm setting up an amanda system, and I'm a little confused by the > jargon. What I'm trying to do is one full backup a week (on Fridays) and > partial backups every other weeknight. (I assume "every other weeknight" means "every weeknigh

Re: Tape Cycle calculations

2003-02-19 Thread Martin hepworth
Alex Page wrote: I'm setting up an amanda system, and I'm a little confused by the jargon. What I'm trying to do is one full backup a week (on Fridays) and partial backups every other weeknight. I want to operate four weeks of tapes in rotation, so at any time we have four weeks of backup down to

Re: Tape Cycle calculations

2003-02-19 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 at 2:08pm, Alex Page wrote > I'm setting up an amanda system, and I'm a little confused by the > jargon. What I'm trying to do is one full backup a week (on Fridays) and > partial backups every other weeknight. I want to operate four weeks of > tapes in rotation, so at any time

Tape Cycle calculations

2003-02-19 Thread Alex Page
I'm setting up an amanda system, and I'm a little confused by the jargon. What I'm trying to do is one full backup a week (on Fridays) and partial backups every other weeknight. I want to operate four weeks of tapes in rotation, so at any time we have four weeks of backup down to the granularity of