On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 05:58:26PM +0530, Rohit enlightened us:
> 
> This is what I understoond by the terms "dumpcycle", "runspercycle" &
> "tapecycle". Please correct me if I have misunderstood these terms.
> 
> dumpcycle 2 weeks:
> Full backups of all shares will be done once in every 2
> weeks (or 10 days - excluding weekends (sat/sun))
>

Almost. A full backup of each share will be done *at least* once every 2
weeks. Sometimes amanda will schedule a level 0 sooner if it will help
balance out tape use.

> runspercycle 10:
> amdump runs 10 days a for dumpcycle of 2 weeks (or 10 days dumpcycle)
> 
> tapecycle 20 tapes:
> number of tapes to use per dumpcycle of 2 weeks. 10 tapes X 2 dumpcycles =
> 20 tapes.
> 
> Did I understand this right?
> 

Yep.

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
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