--- Dave Ewart <davee AT ceu.ox.ac DOT uk> wrote:

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> On Tuesday, 23.01.2007 at 01:16 -0600, Frank Smith
> wrote:
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> > > Thanks for the reply. So if I only have one DLE,
> will the full
> > > backup always take place on a particular day and
> will only
> > > incremental backups be taken on the remaining
> days? Or will it be
> > > handled in some different way?
> > 
> > dumpcycle is just the maximum time between fulls. 
> Amanda often
> > schedules them sooner if it thinks it will level
> out daily tape usage.
> > I don't know how it handles a single DLE, as that
> is not really what
> > it was designed for.
> 
> That's correct: although AMANDA is still a
> convenient tool to use in
> this context.
> 
> If the original poster's full backup fits on to a
> single tape, and backs
> up in a reasonable period of time, you could just do
> a full backup every
> day, perhaps?
> 

At the moment, full backup of my data fits on a single
tape, but it may not fit, over a period of time.

Thanks

Yogesh


 
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