Morning Guys,<br><br>Bit of a novice when it comes to Amanda tape backup systems, but I have chosen this path and so far im happy with it -- the system I have at the moment is a Centos server with an internal scsi LTO-2 tape drive with 10 tapes @ 200/400gb each. I have everything working correctly and each night it will run the crontab and perform its backup. My slight confusion comes with the whole dumpcycle, tapecycle, runspercycle and runstape thing ...<br>
<br>Firstly, as I understand it the definitions for these terms are as follows :-<br><br>dumpcycle (currently 2 weeks) = the length of time that it takes to complete a full set of backups, after this amount of time we start putting in tape 1 again etc to be overwritten<br>
tapecycle (currently 10) = the number of tapes available<br>runspercycle (currently 9) = how many backups to perform (full and/or differential) during the dumpcycle, so if the dumpcycle was 2 weeks and the runspercycle was 9 then it would do 9 backups in the two week period?<br>
runtapes (currently 1) = how many tapes each backup task should use, in my case - no autoloader, so this is 1<br><br>What I would ideally like is to have two sets, both using 5 tapes, so ...<br><br>Week 1 : TapeSet01<br>Week 2 : TapeSet02<br>
Week 3 : TapeSet01<br>Week 4 : TapeSet02<br clear="all"><br>The reason I want todo this is because I want to be able to take offsite backups, and since amanda manages the whole schedule of when it does a full backup it kinda makes it impossible to know when to take a single tape offsite, so im thinking at the end of each week just take away one set, or is there another better way to deal with offsite backups ?<br>
<br>Anyone had any experience with amanda and this kind of setup im trying to acheive? I know 10 tapes is an odd low number, but thats budgets I guess ... :/<br><br>Thanks again...<br><br>-- <br><br>Regards,<br><br>Richard Bagshaw<br>
<a href="mailto:richard@bagshaw.co.uk">richard@bagshaw.co.uk</a>