The discussion of dump levels has me considering changing
my setup.  The goal would be to have backups covering a
longer period than 1 month, say 2 months.  But using the
same vtape storage space.

Nominally if I double the number of vtapes (40 -> 80 with
reduced size) and the dumpcycle (7 days -> 14 days) that
would do it.

Typically my daily incrementals are only 10% or less than
my level 0's and my vtapes are 60-70% full.

Such an arrangement would still have me storing the same
number of dumpcycles, about 4 - 5.  But they would cover
a longer period.

Tape spanning is on and runtapes is > 1 for the
occassional larger than normal amdump.

I think I would keep bumpdays at 2 to ensure I have at
least two copies of any changed file.

Anyone see a problem with that scenario?


Related to my thinking about the above change is a question
about dump levels.  Aside from promotion to level 0, does
amanda ever reverse the sequence of dump levels, say going
from 4 back to 3 or 2 or 1?  Or is it always changing
monotonically down.

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