I think you are right. I guess the thing to keep in mind is that the
dumpcycle is in days and not "jobs", as in cronjob command instances. I
don't think you can have it discount days.

I personally think it would be easier to remember that fulls are on mon
and thurs and not rotating through out the week if you were able to
discount sat and sun.

Keith


> Okay....what are the settings for getting a full once every 3 days with
> backups 5 nights a week and 16 tapes?
>
> I tried
> dumpcycle 3 days
> runspercycle 3
> tapecycle 16 tapes
>
> but that gives me fulls of everyone on Monday and what I want Tues thru
> Friday. I think the problem is when it fires up on Monday it thinks it
> is 2 days behind. How can I tell it to discount Saturday and Sunday?
>
> My cron file runs amdump Mon-Fri.
>
> Would
> dumpcycle 1 week
> runspercycle 3
> tapecycle 16 tapes
>
> work better?
>
>
> JLm
>
>
>
> Jeremy Mordkoff
> Tatara Systems
> 978-206-0808 (direct)
> 978-206-0888 (fax)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Nasman [mailto:keith AT ahapala DOT net]
> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 11:01 AM
> To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> Subject: Full Backup Configuration
>
> What are the amanda.conf settings (dumpcycle, runspercycle, tapecycle)
> for
> getting a full backup each night, five days a week, with a four weeks
> worth of tapes (20)?
>
> thanks,
> Keith