Greetings. For backups to a server with one DLT-IV drive, I would like to change the tape once per week. During the week, I would like to do one full backup on day 1, and incremental backups on days 2-5.

To do this, I set "dumpcycle 1 week" and "runspercycle 5" and "tapecycle 1 tapes". However, in the dump reports, I get this message every dump, even on the incremental days:

planner: tapecycle (1) <= runspercycle (5)
  planner: Full dump of hostname.networktest.com:/ promoted from 6 days
ahead.

This sounds like amanda does a full dump each time. True?

If so, what is the correct config for one full dump plus four incremental dumps?

This is for 2.4.4p4_2 on FreeBSD 4.10.

Thanks!

dn

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