> If you run it 7 days a week then what you have is fine. Cool, I am running it every night.
To answer your questions, > How much data do you want backed up currently I would like to plan for 35GB, one full tape, but it is under 10GB (I think, could be a little more) > how long is your backup window as long as I need, currently I run at midnight and an hour or two is just fine > how old can the data be on a restore and still be acceptable one week is fine by me, I am more concerned about getting last nights backup than last weeks (I am sure this will bite me later) > will you ever need to restore data previous to the last backup, etc. not at the moment, not from tape. I do have a RAID 5 system that I backup to as well (and this is included in the Amanda tape backups) It would be great if each tape is one days worth of backups, I have a ton to read now that I know about "the chapter" so I may change my mind on this later, but as it stands now a full backup each day is what I am looking at doing. Thanks for your time, Jay -----Original Message----- From: Frank Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 3:54 PM To: Jason Lavigne; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: recommended dumpcycle, runspercycle and tapecycle --On Monday, November 03, 2003 15:13:44 -0500 Jason Lavigne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (I have a few questions and figured I would split them up as opposed to > asking all in one email) > > > > To be very honest, I have no idea what these values should be for my > setup, I have the Adic VLS DLT7000 with 7 tapes in it and I would like > to have the ideal setup, I have a couple spare tapes but I don't really > have the resources to buy any more tapes so I would like to rotate > between these 7 (or 6, see below) tapes. > > > > dumpcycle 6 days > > runspercycle 6 > > tapecycle 7 tapes If you're running 6 days per week and not running it 1 day, I would suggest changing dumpcycle to 7. If you run it 7 days a week then what you have is fine. > > Side note: I am keen on placing a cleaning tape in to the final slot but > wouldn't know how to setup Amanda to know about and take advantage of > the cleaning tape. As it stands now I clean the drive once a week > manually. Any suggestions about this would be greatly appreciated. The answer to 'the best values' would be 'it depends'. How much data do you want backed up, how long is your backup window, how old can the data be on a restore and still be acceptable, will you ever need to restore data previous to the last backup, etc. If you aren't currently using much of your tape, you could shorten your dumpcycle and runspercycle to 3 days and give yourself two fulls per week instead of one. Frank > > > TIA > > > > Jay > -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501