Jon, The longest interval I want is a level 0 every 2 weeks. I'll try setting dumpcycle 2 weeks.
I run amdump 5 times per week. M-F. What does runspercycle do? I don't have that in my conf file. Will the tapes need relabeling after these changes? Thanks for your help! Soo On Thu, 16 May 2002, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 10:22:31AM -0700, Soo Hom wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I want more level 0 dumps in the tapecycle. Currently we get about 2 > > level 0's every six weeks. > > > > > > dumpcycle 6 weeks > > tapecycle 30 tapes > > > > tapedev "/dev/nrst0" > > tapetype SDT10000 > > > > infofile "/var/amanda/eceadm/curinfo" > > indexdir "/var/amanda/eceadm/index" > > logdir "/var/amanda/eceadm" > > > > labelstr "VOL[1-6][1-5]*$" > > > > If I change the number of tapes from 30 to 40 and the dumpcycle to 4 weeks > > will this result in more than 2 level 0's per tapecycle? > > > > > > dumpcycle 4 weeks > > tapecycle 40 tapes > > Question 1. What is the LONGEST interval between level 0's you want? > > Right now you are saying 6 weeks. Getting more than 1 every > 6 weeks is not certain. Only that you will get at least 1. > > Setting dumpcycle to 4 weeks only makes certain you get > at least 1 every 4 weeks. > > Set it to 1 week and you will get at least 1 every week. > > Question 2. How frequently do you run amdump? It appears to be 5 times a week. > > You should set runspercycle to the number of amdump runs per dump > cycle. If you set dumpcycle to 2 weeks and do 5 dumps per week, > runspercycle should be 10. > > The number of tapes does not affect the other parameters. But it should be > greater than runspercycle. Usually by a factor of 2 or 3 or 4 or... depending > on how many cycles you wish to keep in case of problems. > > -- > Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] > JG Computing > 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 > Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) >
