On Thu, 5 Sep 2002 at 11:26am, Andrew Williams wrote

> Do the dumpcycle and related variables mean anything when using tar instead of
> dump?  Specifically I'm looking at the tapecycle variable and wether or not it
> means anything in the context of tar.  (knowing that dump uses levels which
> seem to be primed via the dumpcycle variable)

Amanda schedules tar backups (levels and all) just like dump.

> Basically I want to have 28 tapes with daily full tars every day of the week. 
> Do I just label all of the tapes I'm going to use and it will cycle back to
> the first used tape when the list of labled tapes is reached?

Set tapecycle to how many tapes you want to use.  To always do full 
backups (level 0s), set dumpcycle to 0.

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