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On Tuesday, 23.01.2007 at 01:16 -0600, Frank Smith wrote:

> > Thanks for the reply. So if I only have one DLE, will the full
> > backup always take place on a particular day and will only
> > incremental backups be taken on the remaining days? Or will it be
> > handled in some different way?
> 
> dumpcycle is just the maximum time between fulls.  Amanda often
> schedules them sooner if it thinks it will level out daily tape usage.
> I don't know how it handles a single DLE, as that is not really what
> it was designed for.

That's correct: although AMANDA is still a convenient tool to use in
this context.

If the original poster's full backup fits on to a single tape, and backs
up in a reasonable period of time, you could just do a full backup every
day, perhaps?

Dave.
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