Hi. There are a couple of parameters on amanda.conf that I can't figure out exactly their meaning, even after reading the man pages a thousand times:
- dumpcycle, in days - runspercycle, in number of amdumps - tapecycle, in number of tapes tapecycle is the total number of tapes; only these tapes are rotated, right? runspercycle is in how many dumps the whole backup is spread? a runspercycle of 4 means that the last 4 tapes contain everything to recover the whole system? not sure about this... what is dumpcycle? is this how many days can pass after which a backup must exist? and a problem I have is understanding what happens whenever I skip amdump for a couple of days. Because of the dumpcycle, it means that next amdump will dump a lot more than usual? and let say I just require a weekly backup; if I set dumpcycle to 7 days and runspercycle of 4, it means that it only takes 4 tapes to have a full backup? But I can lag until 7 days. Thank you, Rodrigo -- *** Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *** Web page: http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda *** Teaching Assistant and PhD Student at ISR: *** Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica, Polo de Lisboa *** Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, PORTUGAL *** PGP fingerprint = 0119 AD13 9EEE 264A 3F10 31D3 89B3 C6C4 60C6 4585
