On Friday 29 November 2002 07:22, marc.bigler AT day DOT com wrote:
>First, thanks for your detailed opinion. You are right I could use
> 40 tapes in the config but then I would like to have at least a
> dump level 0 once per week, so how would I acheive that, I mean
> which config options in my amanda.conf to use ? is something like
> that correct:
>
>dumpcycle 5 days
>runspercycle 5
>tapecycle 40
>runtapes 2
>
>also what's the strategy to adopt when the set of 8 tapes is
> finished, take it offsite and relabel the next ones ? Or should I
> label all 40 tapes in one go ?
>
>Regards
>Marc

Relabel them all in one go, and forget the labeling until such time 
as a tape is damaged and becomes unusable.  In modern drives, that 
will be quite some time, I have 50 some passes on some of my DDS2 
tapes right now, and the drive hasn't blinked its leds for a 
cleaning now in several months.  No miss-fires.  And the wife 
smokes!

Are you intending to just run amanda mon-fri, but not on the 
weekends?

In that case then dumpcycle should be 7 days or 1 week, its 
interchangeable.

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