Greetings - I'm just starting to get Amanda set up. I have a 5-tape DLT7000 changer. I've been going back and forth about how to structure my backup policies.
The amount of data that will be being backed up is around 10 gigs. The DLTIV tapes I'm using should hold around 30 gigs, according to amtapetype. I have a ton of tapes to work with - approximately 80 tapes. Because of the relatively small amount of data I'm working with and the large number of tapes, I figure that I might as well do a full backup every night. Would this make sense? That's my first question. My second question is how to implement this in my amanda.conf. I believe the following should be correct, but I wanted to run it by the list to see if there are any improvements: ... dumpcycle 1 day runspercycle 1 day tapecycle 28 days ... If I'm thinking correctly, this will force Amanda to do a full backup every night, and I'll have 28 days worth of full backups in the cycle. Correct? Any suggestions? Thanks!