On Wednesday 16 March 2005 13:06, Edson Noboru Yamada wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I´m a Veritas Netbackup admin, and I´m trying to test Amanda
>as an alternative.
>
>With Netbackup, it´s possible to define a backup image retention
> time, that is 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?
>
>Thanks

This is the variable in the amanda.conf file called 'tapecycle', and 
amanda will not reuse a tape until all tapecycle-1 other tapes have 
all been used.  Its common useage to have anywhere from 2x to 4x or 
5x the dumpcycle days in tapes in the use rotation.

So I think that while the names might change, this is the function 
that you are asking about.

I'm currently set for a bit of overkill, using a 4 day dumpcycle and 
runspercycle, and a 22 day tapecycle, all on a big piece of a 200GB 
disk.  That partition is currently sitting at about 94% full and has 
been stable at that for many days now.

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