> tapecycle? > Probably not exactly the same semantics but close enough: it is > counted in number of tapes instead of days (but together with > runspercycle and runtapes this becomes equivalent). > Also amanda will warn a few days in advance when you would overwrite > the last full dump of disk-list-entry (DLE).
Thanks for the quick response. Suppose I want to perform one full backup per week, and one day is time enough to do that for all the clients. All the images fit in 2 tapes. I defined the following parameters: dumpcycle = 1 week runspercycle = 1 tapecycle = 4 Are these values OK? Assume that the backups will take exactly 2 tapes. What will happen after the first week? The 2 used tapes will be overwritten? Or the 2 non-used tapes will be preferred and the used ones will be only used on the 3rd week? Thank you