Thanks for the advise I will pursue your tip.

Cheers

Chuck

On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 04:02 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 08:24:02AM +0100, chuck.amadi wrote:
> > Hi all
> > 
> > I have recently changed my amanda.conf file dump cycle to 4 weeks in a
> > attempt to get more out on my DDS-4 20gb tapes but I will have a more
> > difficult amrestore
> > 
> > I have read and digested that a typical dumpcycle entry is 7 to 14 days
> > thus 1 or 2 weeks even though my amanda is working ok would it be ok to
> > changed the dumpcycle to 2 weeks and will this effect my amdumps.
> 
> >From amanda's perspective no problem.
> 
> But consider it from your logistics.  All of a sudden, in a single dump,
> all the level 0's from half your old dumpcycle become due the same day.
> Also, the next one or two dumpcycles are liable to have lots of unbalanced
> days as amanda tries to rebalance to the new dumpcycle period.
> 
> If you can handle a massive dump that day and won't be uncomfortable with
> some days with little and some with a lot of data for a while, just make
> the change in a single jump.  Otherwise, perhaps you can change it in
> several steps.  4->3->2 weeks or 28->24->20->16->14 days.
>