On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 10:55:47AM +0000, Niall O Broin wrote:
> On Friday 29 November 2002 09:16, marc.bigler AT day DOT com wrote:
> 
> dumpcycle 7 days
> runspercycle 5
> tapecycle 40  (or however many tapes you have)
> runtapes 2
> 
> and then you simply label your tapes (physically and with amlabel) mysite01 
> to 
> mysite40 (rather than 00-39 - easier for humans, and amanda doesn't care)
> 
> With runspercycle  5 and runtapes  2 a "complete set" of tapes is anyway not 
> 8 
> but rather ten.

Semantic comment.  "complete set" is a rather ephemeral value.

As runtapes is a maximum number allowed, not the number which will be
actually used, each complete set could be anywhere between 5 and 10 tapes
depending on whether 1 or 2 tapes were used any particular run.

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