Hello to all of the Amanda specialists and users.
Once more i have got a problem with amanda. I wish to implement a backup
starts at a friday with the full backup, then Monday - Thursday the smaller
backups.So one cycle runs a week and need 5 dumps. For security i want to
use two cycles, so i need 10 tapes before overwriting old tapes.
I thought i can configure that in amanda.conf (dumpcycle 2 weeks,
runspercycle 10, typecycle 12 because 10 are needed and 2 as reserve).
I have to test it and so i tried the following:dumpcycle 3 days,
runspercycle 3, typecycle 3.
My intention by this was i have 3 tapes called csd01,csd02,csd03. The first
backup had to be full on csd01, the next 2 should me smaller (on first on
csd02 then on csd03). The fourth backup should be a full backup on tape
csd01 again. The next on csd02 ..... For the tests i tried to use only one
cycle and i start the backup ervery 10min. But i doesen't work like i
thought. First the succession doesn't match. Sometimes e.g. tape csd06 has
to be used were tape csd03 is expected. And why tape 06 when i have only
tape csd01 till tape csd06. And the full backup comes sometimes on csd03....
I've changed amanda.conf. First i made tests with 6 tapes, but for the test
i had only 3 so i changed amanda.conf
I didn't find ansers to the problem in FAQ or other descriptions.
Thanks for help
With kind regards
Frank
