* Christoph Scheeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 10:31:14AM
+0100)
>> It looks like amanda tries to squeeze exactly 1 0 dump for each filesystem
>> in a dumpcycle.
>>
>> This is bad
>> (just imagine a diskcrash just as the disk is being 0dumped to the tape
>> that had the last 0dump on it).
> No, that is the intended way amanda works.
Okay
>> Is there any way to get amanda to do 2 0dumps per filesystem in each
>> dumpcycle (apart form specifying a dumpcycle of N/2 days ) ?
> No other way. Dumpcycle is exactly ment for this purpose.
> To give the time after that every filesystem has to be dumped at least
> once with a level 0 dump.
Okay
>> Or am I misunderstanding things here ?
> Yes.
Okay,
that explains it ;)
> if you specify a dumpcycle of 7 days, with runspercycle set to 5
> and tapecycle set to 10, amanda will only accept tape T1 when it has
> written to tape T10 before.
> dumpcyle tels amanda how often to do level 0's
> and tapecycle tells her how many tapes she should use before
> recycling them.
> Hope it helps
Yup,
sure does.
Rereading the manpages, I see that that's exactly what's written there,
I guess that'll teach me not to read manpages on sunday evenings ;) )
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