Anderson, I do something similar. Having an LTO3 what we don't change the tape in (this particular jukebox in the the favorite one onsite) we needed to extend the dumpcycle - or rather, the ability to recover files more than a week and a half old (the number of runs we get using 16 tapes in the jukebox, 5 runs/week and more than one tape/run).
We continue to use the older L9/LTO jukebox for a once/week run and I have the current relevent parameters set dumpcycle 1 weeks runspercycle 1 tapecycle 20 tapes runtapes 9 I suppose you could also use the dumptype "alwaysfull" I get multiple runs from the tapecycle and have no trouble pulling data from the older tapes. Of course I use amrestore rather than amrecover, if that is what you are asking about... Sorry - I want to be really clear - I have two amanda configs on the system, one for 5/week and one for weekly (1/week), called apropriately from cron. If you are using a single config and want to force a weekly level 0 for offsite or achive, I did that on a different system, I have a friday morning cron entry that invokes # amadmin force On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 11:41:10AM -0500, Krahn, Anderson wrote: > Here's a question i have created a new configuration file for a second > run that will be a full offsite run. > My requirements are to have > a) a full run once a week > b) a rotation of 3 weeks before re-writing to a tape in the tape list. > > > > here are my current parameters in amanda.conf > > > dumpcycle 0 weeks # the number of days in the normal dump cycle > > runspercycle 3 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days -- > i believe this should be "0" too. > > > tapecycle 4 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation > > > My question is considering the dumpcycle is 0 would i be able to restore > from a tape that is 2 weeks old? > I believe the answer is yes becuase i dont think amanda expires data on > a tape? > > Thanks, > Anderson > > > > --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support (v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center (f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of Health Help Desk 518 473-0773 IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential or sensitive information which is, or may be, legally privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, please do not distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this from your system. Thank you for your cooperation.