On Wednesday 16 March 2005 13:06, Edson Noboru Yamada wrote: >Hi, > >I´m a Veritas Netbackup admin, and I´m trying to test Amanda >as an alternative. > >With Netbackup, it´s possible to define a backup image retention > time, that is the number of days that an a given image must be > preserved on a tape; a tape is only reused if all the backup images > it contains are expired. > >Is there a way to define something similar with amanda? > >Thanks
This is the variable in the amanda.conf file called 'tapecycle', and amanda will not reuse a tape until all tapecycle-1 other tapes have all been used. Its common useage to have anywhere from 2x to 4x or 5x the dumpcycle days in tapes in the use rotation. So I think that while the names might change, this is the function that you are asking about. I'm currently set for a bit of overkill, using a 4 day dumpcycle and runspercycle, and a 22 day tapecycle, all on a big piece of a 200GB disk. That partition is currently sitting at about 94% full and has been stable at that for many days now. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
