Anderson,

I do something similar. Having an LTO3 what we don't change the
tape in (this particular jukebox in the the favorite one onsite)
we needed to extend the dumpcycle - or rather, the ability to
recover files more than a week and a half old (the number of runs
we get using 16 tapes in the jukebox, 5 runs/week and more than
one tape/run).

We continue to use the older L9/LTO jukebox for a once/week run
and I have the current relevent parameters set

dumpcycle 1 weeks
runspercycle  1
tapecycle 20 tapes
runtapes 9

I suppose you could also use the dumptype "alwaysfull"

I get multiple runs from the tapecycle and have no trouble
pulling data from the older tapes. Of course I use amrestore
rather than amrecover, if that is what you are asking about...

Sorry - I want to be really clear - I have two amanda configs
on the system, one for 5/week and one for weekly (1/week), called
apropriately from cron.

If you are using a single config and want to force a weekly
level 0 for offsite or achive, I did that on a different system,
I have a friday morning cron entry that invokes # amadmin force






On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 11:41:10AM -0500, Krahn, Anderson wrote:
> Here's a question i have created a new configuration file for a second
> run that will be a full offsite run. 
> My requirements are to have
> a) a full run once a week
> b) a rotation of 3 weeks before re-writing to a tape in the tape list.
>  
>  
>  
> here are my current parameters in amanda.conf
>  
>  
> dumpcycle 0 weeks # the number of days in the normal dump cycle
>  
> runspercycle 3         # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days  --
> i believe this should be "0" too.
>  
> 
> tapecycle 4 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation
> 
>  
> My question is considering the dumpcycle is 0 would i be able to restore
> from a tape that is 2 weeks old?
> I believe the answer is yes becuase i dont think amanda expires data on
> a tape?
>  
> Thanks,
> Anderson 
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