Amanda-Users

Re: dumpcycle / runspercycle / tapecycle best practices?

2004-11-04 14:35:16
Subject: Re: dumpcycle / runspercycle / tapecycle best practices?
From: Eric Siegerman <erics AT telepres DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 14:02:13 -0500
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:53:59PM +0100, Jukka Salmi wrote:
> 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?

Both settings are equivalent.  From planner.c:
    if (runs_per_cycle <= 0) {
        runs_per_cycle = 1;
    }

So pick the one that looks nicer :-)

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