On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 11:53 -0500, Brian Cuttler wrote:
> 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

...and to also be clear, you are running this secondary, once-a-week,
full-only run with "record no", correct?

Paul

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> 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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