On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 at 10:54am, John Oliver wrote

> > > I run amanda each Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
> > > mornings.  I do want to get more tapes, so I have a multiple of 5.
> > 
> > Then your dumpcycle should be 1 week and your runspercycle should be 5.  
> > You'll need more tapes for full redundancy, as mentioned, but you won't 
> > get the busy Tuesday mornings you are now.
> 
> B-b-but... if I do that with the eight tapes I have now... won't it get
> a little wonky at some point?

Not really wonky.  You just won't have two full sets of backups on tape at 
any one time.  It's "less safe".

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