If I understand the concept of bumpting, then because I'm using virtual
tapes, I think I want total bumping to be done -- if there is such a
thing. I don't care at all how many "tapes" my backup is scattered over.
I inherited my amanda setup from my predecessor in this job and I have
never messed with the bump settings. But we are moving from physical
tapes to virtual tapes. Here are the current values:
bumpsize 500 mb # minimum savings (threshold) to bump level 1 -> 2
bumpdays 1 # minimum days at each level
bumpmult 4 # threshold = bumpsize * bumpmult^(level-1)
I'm a little unclear on how backup levels and tape cycle interact. It
would be fine with me if there was always just one copy of each file on
the virtual tapes.
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John G. Heim, 608-263-4189, jh...@math.wisc.edu
