On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 16:20:18 -0500, Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not quite. The tapecycle means amanda will not overwrite a tape until > 27 others in the tapelist have been used. You could actually cycle > 40 or 80 tapes and leave the tapecycle at 28 or reduce it to 7. Tape- > cycle is how soon can a tape be reused.
That makes tapecycle much easier to understand. Thanks! Yeah I know that I could cycle a bunch more tapes, but frankly, I don't really want (nor have the need) for that much retention. > And, get that "day" and "days" off of the runspercycle and tapecycle lines. > They are unit-less integers. One run per day. Twenty eight tapes minimum > in the cycle. > Same with runspercycle. Yeah - that was a typo on my part...thanks for pointing it out, though.