Luc Lalonde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hey folks,
>
>I've got a Daily config running fine with the following settings:
>
>dumpcycle 1 weeks
>runspercycle 5
>tapecycle 17 tapes
>
>I'd like to have a second config called "Monthly". However, I'm not
>sure what to put as values for the above parameters. Here's what I
>was able to find from various information sources:
>
>dumpcycle 0 weeks
>runspercycle ???????
>tapecycle 1000 tapes
>
>I want to keep the tapes and not overwrite them...hence the high
>number in the tapecyle. Also, I want full dumps everytime. But what
>do I put as "runspercycle"? If I have the "Daily" and "Monthly"
>running on two seperate configs, what will there be conflicts with
>/etc/dumpdates and /etc/amandates? Is there an other potential
>conflicts that I should know about?
Here's what I have for our archival configuration:
[...]
dumpcycle 6 weeks # a level 0 per filesystem every 6 weeks
runspercycle 6 # 12 dailys + 2 archives / fortnight
tapecycle 1000 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation
[...]
(For yours, dumpcycle would be 4 weeks and runspercycle would be however
often in that time that you ran the Monthly configuration; once/week for
us.) Then in the dumptypes:
[...]
record no
skip-incr yes
[...]
The "record no" prevents updating /etc/dumpdates and the skip-incr
limits it to full dumps.
Tommy McGuire
