Bruce Fletcher wrote:

On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 12:57  AM, Paul Bijnens wrote:

The global dumpcycle can be overruled for some specific dumptypes.
So that you can have e.g. a global dumpcycle of 7 days, but a few
important DLE's can specify a dumpcycle 0 (= full backups allways).
Runspercycle and tapecycle can only be global.

I assume there is nothing special about a DLE dumpcycle of 0, is there?
I.e. a DLE dumpcycle of 3 won't somehow conflict with a (global)
runspercycle of 5?

Nothing special at all.

And how does one cope as data storage requirements start to increase?
My understanding is that you can do the following:

- if necessary, label a few more tapes and increase the tapecycle
- increase the global and DLE dumpcycles as required

Yes.

There are no other steps involved?  If I have that right, it just
seems too easy.

Not everything has to be complicated :-)



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