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Re: runtapes problem

2005-07-14 15:39:41
Subject: Re: runtapes problem
From: Graeme Humphries <graeme.humphries AT vcom DOT com>
To: Gregor Ibic <gregor.ibic AT intelicom DOT si>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:29:43 -0600
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 21:14 +0200, Gregor Ibic wrote:
> I have 1 logical tape in a cycle but this can be splited in two tapes.
> Is this ok?
> 
> I dont want to do two day-alternate backup with full and increment 1 dumps.
> 
> I want to do full dumps every day, and instead of using one tape I would
> like to use two tapes.

Right, so something like:

dumpcycle 0 days
tapecycle X tapes (where X is the number of tapes in your changer)
runtapes 2

and then in your dumptype definition:

strategy noinc

I think that should cover what you want, no?


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