Gaby vanhegan wrote:

Hello again!

Whilst setting up a full dump configuration to do monthly full dumps to tape, I'm torn between either:

    strategy "noinc"

or

    dumpcycle 0

To do a full dump. What's the difference here? Does it matter which one I use?

Heres my reading of what I've experienced from experimenting with these;

Suppose that a filesystem has grown too large to fit on the tape.

noinc will simply not dump that filesystem at all on that run.

dumpcycle 0 will fall back to incremental for that filesystem.