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
the granularity of one day.

Am I right in thinking that this is a dump cycle of 7 days, with 5
runs per cycle and 4 tapes per run? Sorry if this is alarmingly obvious,
I'm pretty new to all this :)

Alex

Alex

 err no.

ya want want

dumpcycle 4 weeks       # the number of days in the normal dump cycle
runspercycle 20         # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days
                        # (4 weeks * 5 amdump runs per week --
                           justweekdays)
tapecycle 20 tapes      # the number of tapes in rotation

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Martin Hepworth
Senior Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic Ltd
+44 (0)1865 842300




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