On Apr  2, 2001, verdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> >I wanted to perform a FULL dump each sunday during 10 weeks
>> 
>> Jason is correct that you want "dumpcycle 0" to force the full dumps.
>> 
>> I just wanted to add that if these clients are also being backed up
>> with another configuration (e.g. daily), you want to add "record no"
>> to the dumptype so the two do not get crossed up.

> i probably didn't have this problem because the daily backup are onto on
> cycle which exclude the week-end (i'm doing full backup during the
> week-end)

Nope.  You just failed to notice you have a problem.  When doing a
full restore, you may notice restore may complain that a level 2
backup done on Monday is not based on the level 1 ran on Friday, but
on the archive full backup done on Sunday.

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