Hello Christoph

Thanks a lot for advise. The only problem - as you call it - is easily
solved ;-)
Let's see what she says....

Cheers
Urs

>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
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