On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 05:46:45PM +0200, Sebastian Kösters wrote:
> I forgot to say.
> 
> I did that because my backup size is between 40 and 160 GB each tape, every
> day. So i set it to 300 to guarantee that the end of the tape is never
> reached and that i do not get the error "tape full".
> 
> Hope you unterstand what i mean
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >all together i have 2 TB.
> >
> >I use 8 configs (4 with 14 tapecycles each and 4 with 1 tapecycle each).
> >
> >In each config i told amanda to use a maximum of 300GB.
> >

OK, I'm confused.

A typical amanda installation has a single config, not 8.
Maybe a second one for special purposes, like off-site archives.
But seldom (?never?) 8.

What do you mean by a config?


A tapecycle of 1 is never a good idea.  It means as soon as you start
a backup, you are destroying the only backup you have of those data.

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