On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 10:13:49AM -0500, Brendon Colby wrote:
> 1. If I have a 16 tape tapecycle, and a dumpcycle of 7, does this mean I 
> effectively have 16 days of backups? As in, I can do a restore of up to 16 
> days? (I'm just trying to wrap my head around this new-to-me backup method.)

It means you have backups for as many days as it takes you to get through
16 tapes.  If you have tapecycle 16, dumpcycle 7 days and runspercycle
5 (a common config for all the sites that only run backups M-F), then
you'll have backups going back two weeks and a day to three weeks and
a day.  (The oldest dumpcycle will be incomplete since some of it will
be incrementals from full dumps which have already been overwritten.)