Amanda-Users

Re: dumpcycle / runspercycle / tapecycle best practices?

2004-11-03 16:58:25
Subject: Re: dumpcycle / runspercycle / tapecycle best practices?
From: Jukka Salmi <j+amanda AT 2004.salmi DOT ch>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 22:53:59 +0100
Hi,

Erik Anderson --> amanda-users (2004-11-03 14:44:55 -0600):
[...]
> full backup every night.
[...]
> dumpcycle 1 day

According to the amanda man page you should set dumpcycle to zero to
get full dumps each run.

Hmm, when setting dumpcycle to zero, to what value should runspercycle
be set if amdump runs once a day? Zero ("same as dumpcycle") or one?
Does it matter at all?


TIA, Jukka

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