On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 01:16:20PM -0400, Charlie Wiseman wrote:
> doing disk backups.  So, we want to take a level 0 (with 
> Amanda) of all of our systems twice a week, say Mondays 
> and Thursdays, and no backups in between.  Is this possible 
> with Amanda?

Sure.

> How exactly does it decide when to do the dump
> if I specified dumpcycle=1 week and runspercycle=2?

If this is *always* full, *never* any incrementals, then dumpcycle
loses it's normal meaning and you use the special value 'dumpcycle 0'.

Personally, I set 'runspercycle 1' also, but I'm not sure that makes
any difference.

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