Re: Backup retention time?

Edson Noboru Yamada wrote:

With Netbackup, it´s possible to define a backup image retention time, thatis the number of days that an a given image must be preserved on a tape; a tape
is only reused if all the backup images it contains are expired.

Is there a way to define something similar with amanda?


tapecycle?
Probably not exactly the same semantics but close enough: it is
counted in number of tapes instead of days (but together with
runspercycle and runtapes this becomes equivalent).
Also amanda will warn a few days in advance when you would overwrite
the last full dump of disk-list-entry (DLE).


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