> I have an alternative suggestion for you. > > I've got two different conf's, one for my regular weekly rotational > stuff, > and one called "Archives" for my permanent archives. > > Whenever I want to make a permanent backup of my systems, I just run a > dump > of the Archives conf, that way I don't have to mess around with trying to > make permanents out of my daily rotationals. Doesn't that introduce a lot of extra complexity and additional work?
Also, I want to be sure that the permanent backups contain exactly the same directories as the "normal" ones - seems to me that the best way to do that is to use the same config. - Toralf > > Michael Martinez > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Toralf Lund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 10:04 AM > > To: Amanda Mailing List > > Subject: What tapecycle value to use? > > > > > > I've never been quite able to figure out what value to use > > for tapecycle. > > > > I expect to run backups on first 4 days of week, so I've set > > runspercycle 4 > > > > Tapes are labelled > > Mon-1 > > Tue-1 > > ... > > Mon-2 > > ... > > ... > > Thu-4 > > > > After the fourth "weekly set", the first one is reused, then > > the 2nd and > > 3rd. Set 4 is special, however - I don't want to reuse those > > tapes, but > > rather store them in a safe place and replace them with new > > ones. So after > > sets 1-4 are written, then sets 1-3 once more, I want to be able to do > > > > amlabel ... Mon-4 > > amlabel ... Tue-4 > > > > without being told that those tapes are already active. What > > exactly do I > > set "tapecycle" to in order to allow this? > > -- > > - Toralf > > >
