On Monday 17 February 2003 12:01 pm, Axel Haenssen wrote:
>I apologize for the first mix up. I used s/mime signing that
> couldn't be read by many people. Here the text again unsignend.
>
>Hi Guys,
>Amanda is asking me for a new tape at the end of my dumpcycle
> instead of asking for the first tape DMP01.
>My Amanda.conf has the standard entries:
>dumpcycle 4 weeks

which should equ to either 20 or 28 tapes, 28 if doing weekends

>runspercycle 20

So you are not doing weekends

>tapecycle 25 tapes

>How do I get Amanda to ask for the first tape DMP01????

Amanda will use up tapecycle (25) tapes before she starts recyling 
them.

In addition, the lengthy dumpcycle when compared to the tapecycle 
means that you only have a maximum of 5 days worth of duplicates, 
which is not considered by many of us to be optimum.  Most seem to 
agree that at least 2 generations of backups should be on hand in 
case something happened to one of them.  I went somewhat overboard 
as I had the tapes, its a small system of about 105g in disk 
capacity, so my own dumpcycle is only 5 days, as is runspercycle, 
but tapecycle is 28, so I have multiple insurance copies.

>Thanks
>Axel
>
>Axel Haenssen
>Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
>Princeton University
>Princeton, NJ 08544
>phone:+1(609)258-6999
>http://www.princeton.edu/~axel
>
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