On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 12:57:15PM -0400, Jason Greenberg wrote:
> You'll have to excuse my newbieness for this one, if you would...
> 
> If I have a dumpcycle of 7 days, with 7 runs per cylce, I understand
> that I will have a full backup every 7 days.   So, if that's the case,
> here are my questions:
> 
> 1) How many tapes are used for these 7 runs?  7? or just 1?
> 2) does the tape change after every dumpcycle or every run?
> 3) I have 15 tapes, and

> I would like to use 1 tape per week, with 15 weeks of total history.

In that case, use a different backup program.

Unless you only plan to backup (run amdump) once a week.  Then:

    dumpcycle       1 wk        # maybe 0
    runspercycle    1
    runtapes        1
    tapecycle       15

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