On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 at 10:39am, John Oliver wrote

> On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:28:37PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> > > dumpcycle 4 days
> > 
> > Amanda will get a full backup of every disk list entry (DLE) at least once 
> > every four days.  If you run backups M-Th, Monday is going to be a busy 
> > day...
> > 
> > > runspercycle 4
> > 
> > You'll run amanda 4 times per dumpcycle
> 
> Is it possible to make amanda spread the full backups out over the
> course of the dumpcycle?

That's the default course of action.

> Also, if I change the dumpcycle to 5 days and leave the runspercycle at
> 4, will that work?  I do want to keep tapes in "sets" of a week, but it
> takes time to get more.

Change it to 1 week.  It's the x days, when you really mean x business 
days, that's screwing you up.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University