Re: Configuration suggestions

2001-04-23 Thread John R. Jackson
>Yes sir. That's the answer you gave me about 3 weeks ago when I asked >"what does this runtapes thing mean"? :). Sorry. They're right when they say the first thing that goes with age is, ummm, hmmm, now what was it they say goes first ... :-). >Another option is that the ADIC doesn't have a t

Re: Configuration suggestions

2001-04-23 Thread Mark L. Chang
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, John R. Jackson wrote: > You do understand that setting runtapes to 2 does not mean you will > use 2 tapes every run, right? It means that is the *most* tapes it > will use, but if just one tape is sufficient for a given run, that's > all that will be used. Yes sir. That's

Re: Configuration suggestions

2001-04-23 Thread John R. Jackson
>Now, I am thinking about going to this Daily config: >-- >dumpcycle 1 week >runspercycle 5 >runtapes 2 >tapecycle 44 You do understand that setting runtapes to 2 does not mean you will use 2 tapes every run, right? It means that is the *most* tapes it will use, but if just one

Re: Configuration suggestions

2001-04-23 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 at 10:16am, Mark L. Chang wrote > A) 2-4 weeks of backup history. > B) Full backups once per week. > C) Archival dumps once per month to tapes we just store away. > > I'm using a 22-tape ADIC changer with the current configuration (and I > know it doesn't do either A or C abov