Re: help requested designing once a week dump cycle
2003-02-28 11:35:03
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 at 2:18pm, Mark Stosberg wrote
> I'm interested in some advice on the best way to configure my dump
> cycle. This cycle will run once a week and performs full backups.
> Every forth week we take one tape out the cycle for archiving and
> replace it with a new tape. So is this would this be the optimal
> amanda.conf settings for that?
>
> dumpcycle 28
> runspercycle 4
> tapecycle 4 tapes
Nope -- that won't get you your fulls. But this should:
dumpcycle 1 week
runspercycle 1
tapecycle 4 tapes.
> And then I should mark the 4th tape "no-reuse" ? I'm also not clear of
> the best use of that feature as well.
Yep, 'amadmin $CONFIG no-reuse $LABEL'. You'll then need to amlabel a new
tape.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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