Robert, I had another thought. You could set all your DLEs to be set to do incremental only. I forget whether this is "strategy nofull" or "strategy incronly" or ???. With this you may be able to set you runtapes to 1 and maybe use a larger tape size as you would not be archiving them to DVDs. You would probably set dumpcycle to some arbitrarly large number.
Next you would have your cronjob once a month do an amadmin command before the amdump to force full backups the next dump run. You would have to run amdump with options to set runtapes to a larger value than 1. Perhaps you could also set to tapesize to match DVD size with options also -- I'm not sure if this parameter can be changed from the amdump command line. Such a setup is probably best run by having your cronjob execute a shell script to decide which type of amdump to run. I used to run a similar setup. When I did it I setup three configs, something like Daily-Archival for the level 0 dumps, Daily-Incremental for the other dumps, and Daily-Common. The latter was never used for dumps but contained the files shared by the other two dumps (logdirs, curinfo dirs, etc.). Daily-Common was used for restores however. Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com JG Computing 12027 Creekbend Drive (703) 787-0884 Reston, VA 20194 (703) 787-0922 (fax)
