On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Gene Heskett wrote:

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 not, any recommendations for alternatives?

thanks

dn