I have a similar setup. I have HW compression turned off on the drive (HP
DAT24X6 changer).

In my monthly config:


dumpcycle 0 weeks
runspercycle 1
tapecycle 1000 tapes
runtapes 3

Also, record is turned off so my normal daily amanda config does not think
the level 0 has been completed after the monthly.

We never re-use our monthly tapes we send them offsite and leave them so
thats why I have it set to 1000. We use between 2-3 tapes on a monthly run
so runtapes is at 3.

Scott...

Scott R. Burns
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
[mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org]On Behalf Of Chuck Amadi Systems
Administrator
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 12:01 PM
To: Amanda List
Subject: My Monthly archive config - issue


Hi again

Its that time for a monthly archive backup I have currently 80GB server
and using a DAT DDS-4 20GB native 40GB compression I am aware that I
cannot have both hardware compression and software compression on So
Amanda usually behaviour is to have hardware compression turned off
using the mt command.

Thus my amanda.conf is as follows

I want a full dump for archiving and this tape will pulled out.
dumpcycle 4 weeks       # the number of days in the normal dump cycle
runspercycle 2          # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days
                        # (4 weeks * 5 amdump runs per week -- just
weekdays)
tapecycle 12 tapes      # the number of tapes in rotation to pull each
monthly tape for archiving.

runtapes 1 # number of tapes to be used in a normal run.

Should I increase runtapes to 2 to ensure that I backup at a minimum
40GB.
Also should I amend dumpcycle to dumpcycle 0 weeks for a full dump and
not incremental.

Please advice of the best setup to backup for a monthly archive.

Cheers




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