>On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 01:15:17PM -0500, Jeremy L. Mordkoff wrote:
> > 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.
>>


Do most amanda configs (with changers) run amdump every weekday (M-F) and skip 
running amdump on weekends? I see this sort of idiom stated as "the way" for 
Amanda, however I am not so sure this well-documented idiom is actually used in 
practice. Or is it?

thx