Tape and dump cycles

2002-05-16 Thread adi adi
Hello list, i'm a lil confused abt the dump and tape cycles to put in amanda.conf. This is my situation. I am dumping everyday, 7 days a week. The tapes are labelled for week 1 as monday1, tuesday2, wednesday3 and for the second week would be monday2, tuesday2 and so on. Would it be right to put

Tape and dump cycles

2002-06-24 Thread adi adi
Hello list, i'm a lil confused abt the dump and tape cycles to put in amanda.conf. This is my situation. I am dumping everyday, 7 days a week. The tapes are labelled for week 1 as monday1, tuesday2, wednesday3 and for the second week would be monday2, tuesday2 and so on. Would it be right to put

Re: Tape and dump cycles

2002-05-16 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 16 May 2002 at 4:09am, adi adi wrote > Hello list, i'm a lil confused abt the dump and tape > cycles to put in amanda.conf. This is my situation. I > am dumping everyday, 7 days a week. The tapes are > labelled for week 1 as monday1, tuesday2, wednesday3 > and for the second week would be

Re: Tape and dump cycles

2002-05-16 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Hi, i would use the following values: dumpcycle 7 days # gives you a level 0 of every filesystem # at least every week tapecycle 31 tapes # the amount of tapes you use over all cycles as you use a tape per day, even at weekends, you can ommit runspercycle, as th

Re: Tape and dump cycles

2002-05-16 Thread adi adi
The whole backup could fit into one tape. I will be doing a fulldump everyday until the end of the month. I will try this tonite with the configuration u suggested. Will i get a level 0 dump everyday? I have no choice but to stick with the labelling, will there be much of a problem if i'd use the

Re: Tape and dump cycles

2002-05-16 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 16 May 2002 at 5:45am, adi adi wrote > The whole backup could fit into one tape. I will be > doing a fulldump everyday until the end of the month. > I will try this tonite with the configuration u > suggested. Will i get a level 0 dump everyday? I have Nope. If you want a full dump of e

Re: Tape and dump cycles

2002-05-16 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 05:45:27AM -0700, adi adi wrote: > ... I have > no choice but to stick with the labelling, will there > be much of a problem if i'd use the "friday1 > saturday1"... kinda labelling? Guarantee: they will not stay matched with the day of the dump. If you gotta label tha

Re: Tape and dump cycles

2002-05-17 Thread adi adi
>Guarantee:>they will not stay matched with the day of the dump.>If you gotta label that way so be it.>Inquiring minds ask why? My boss prefers it that way, but i get the idea now. So it would be best that i label it as Daily01, daily02.. daily31 ? If that's the case then i think i will label it th