Jon LaBadie wrote:

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/backups_amanda.html

In the example config file we find these strange (wrong) values:

> dumpcycle 3 weeks # the number of days in the normal dump cycle
>
> runspercycle 8          # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days
>                 # (4 weeks * 5 amdump runs per week -- just weekdays)
>
> tapecycle 12 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation

(as an excuse, they only have dumptypes where "dumpcycle 0" overrides
the dumpcycle of 3 weeks - so everything is a full backup, and then
"runspercycle" does not matter much any more.)

I'm expecting to get a lot of questions about the meaning and
relationships between these three parameters :-)
And the comments don't help clarify this either.

Just for the beginners, here are some more reasonable values:

dumpcycle 1 week
runspersycle 5
tapecycle 12 tapes


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