Hi
ok, with that data given i would suggest the following:
adjust your tapetype to match the size of your tapes,
set runtapes to 1,
leave tapecycle at 6,
leave dumpcycle at one week and
runspercycle at 5, and amanda will do nicely what you want her to do.

Your only problem is the wrong length of your tapes in tapetype.
Christoph

forster AT bluemail DOT ch schrieb:

Hi,
now let's get some information to sort out varios things:
1.) what length are the tapes you use: 120 meter or 125 meter?

125m / 410 feet (12.0GB)

2.) how often do you want amanda to take level0 dumps of your data?
   once a week?

Does not matter, as long as at least one full dump is on one of the 6 tapes...

3.) how many data do you need to backup?

~15GB presently (2 Machines, 12 Partitions). Will not grow much.

4.) is hardwarecompression active in your tapedrive?

No, disabled by using device /dev/rmt/0bn (b= berkley mode n= no compression)

Urs

Christoph