On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 at 10:19am, Chuck Amadi wrote

> Has anyone got examples of a daily backup configuration
> and archive configuration for last Friday of the month.
> 
> I am going to use 5 tapes for monday to friday that I will reuse.
> Thus do a full backup every day.
> 
> dumpcycle 0 weeks
> 
> runspercycle 1
> 
> tapecycle 8 # two for errors and one for cleaning cartridge

Don't count the cleaning cartridge in tapecycle -- only tapes that will 
actually hold data.

> For monthlys Full dump:
> 
> dumpcycle 1           # the number of days in the normal dump cycle
>                       # (full backup at start of month, automatically)
> runspercycle 0          # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days
>                       # (0 means identical to dumpcycle)
> tapecycle 12 tapes    # the number of tapes in rotation 12 for 12 months

runspercycle should be 1.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University