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What tapecycle value to use?

2002-10-09 10:16:41
Subject: What tapecycle value to use?
From: Toralf Lund <toralf AT kscanners DOT com>
To: Amanda Mailing List <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 16:04:26 +0200
I've never been quite able to figure out what value to use for tapecycle.

I expect to run backups on first 4 days of week, so I've set
        runspercycle 4

Tapes are labelled
Mon-1
Tue-1
...
Mon-2
...
...
Thu-4

After the fourth "weekly set", the first one is reused, then the 2nd and 3rd. Set 4 is special, however - I don't want to reuse those tapes, but rather store them in a safe place and replace them with new ones. So after sets 1-4 are written, then sets 1-3 once more, I want to be able to do

amlabel ... Mon-4
amlabel ... Tue-4

without being told that those tapes are already active. What exactly do I set "tapecycle" to in order to allow this? --
- Toralf

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