On Sunday 13 February 2005 12:02, David Newman wrote:
>Greetings. For backups to a server with one DLT-IV drive, I would
> like to change the tape once per week. During the week, I would
> like to do one full backup on day 1, and incremental backups on
> days 2-5.
>
>To do this, I set "dumpcycle 1 week" and "runspercycle 5" and
> "tapecycle 1 tapes". However, in the dump reports, I get this
> message every dump, even on the incremental days:

Tapecycle is the number of tapes in the inventory that can be re-used.
For you, the minimum would be at least 10.

>planner: tapecycle (1) <= runspercycle (5)
>   planner: Full dump of hostname.networktest.com:/ promoted from 6
> days ahead.
>
>This sounds like amanda does a full dump each time. True?

Yes, because it thinks its over-writing the last full level 0 with 
each new backup.

>If so, what is the correct config for one full dump plus four
> incremental dumps?
>
>This is for 2.4.4p4_2 on FreeBSD 4.10.
>
>Thanks!
>
>dn

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