Re: RES: Backup retention time?

2005-03-23 Thread Toomas Aas
Edson Noboru Yamada wrote: Suppose I want to perform one full backup per week, and one day is time enough to do that for all the clients. All the images fit in 2 tapes. I defined the following parameters: dumpcycle = 1 week runspercycle = 1 tapecycle = 4 Are these values OK?

Re: RES: Backup retention time?

2005-03-16 Thread Frank Smith
--On Wednesday, March 16, 2005 15:39:37 -0300 Edson Noboru Yamada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Suppose I want to perform one full backup per week, and one day is time > enough to do that for all the clients. All the images fit in 2 tapes. > > I defined the following parameters: > > dumpc

RES: Backup retention time?

2005-03-16 Thread Edson Noboru Yamada
> tapecycle? > Probably not exactly the same semantics but close enough: it is > counted in number of tapes instead of days (but together with > runspercycle and runtapes this becomes equivalent). > Also amanda will warn a few days in advance when you would overwrite > the last full dump of disk-