>> On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 at 8:01am, Keith Nasman wrote
>>
>>> 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)?
>>
>> dumpcycle=0,runspercycle=1 (doesn't really matter), tapecycle=20
>>
>> --
>> Joshua Baker-LePain
>> Department of Biomedical Engineering
>> Duke University
>
> OK, so I have 20 tapes that amanda has backed up to(DailySet[100-119]).
> I changed my amanda.conf to dumpcycle=0 and when I run "amadmin <set>
> tape" it says then next tape should be a new one. All the tapes in
> tapelist have backup dates and are marked "reuse".
>
> Is there something else I need to do to get amanda to start rotating,
> IOW asking for tape 100?
>
> Thanks,
> Keith


It was brought to my attention to double check that there are indeed 20
tapes and somehow one got physically labeled but not amlabeled.

Keith