Hello Christoph Thanks a lot for advise. The only problem - as you call it - is easily solved ;-) Let's see what she says....
Cheers Urs >Hi >ok, with that data given i would suggest the following: >adjust your tapetype to match the size of your tapes, >set runtapes to 1, >leave tapecycle at 6, >leave dumpcycle at one week and >runspercycle at 5, and amanda will do nicely what you want her to do. > >Your only problem is the wrong length of your tapes in tapetype. >Christoph > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: >>>Hi, >>>now let's get some information to sort out varios things: >>>1.) what length are the tapes you use: 120 meter or 125 meter? >> >> >> 125m / 410 feet (12.0GB) >> >> >>>2.) how often do you want amanda to take level0 dumps of your data? >>> once a week? >> >> >> Does not matter, as long as at least one full dump is on one of the 6 tapes... >> >> >>>3.) how many data do you need to backup? >> >> >> ~15GB presently (2 Machines, 12 Partitions). Will not grow much. >> >> >>>4.) is hardwarecompression active in your tapedrive? >> >> >> No, disabled by using device /dev/rmt/0bn (b= berkley mode n= no compression) >> >> Urs >> >> >> >>>Christoph >