Cheers I will use for Daily dumps 5 tapes two for errors

dumpcycle 0
runspercycle 1
tapescycle 7

For monthlys 12 month tapes and two for errors

dumpcycle 0
runspercycle 1
tapescycle 14

Is this a better rotation cycle for Daily and Monthly backups.

Thanx

On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 10:07 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 10:19:16AM +0100, Chuck Amadi wrote:
> > Hi all
> > 
> > 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
> 
> This part of amanda doesn't want to know about cleaning tapes.
> Only tapes it will write to.
> 
> > 
> > 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)
> 
> I don't understand why you use 0,1 above and 1,0 here.
> Probably 0,1 is appropriate for both.
> 
> 
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