On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:42:59 -0400 (EDT)
Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Bill Campbell) wrote:
> Amanda's way of attempting to balance the backup
> load throughout the dumpcycle messing up my schedule. I have a
> dumpcycle of 1 week and 3 runs per cycle, but the balancing is causing
> promotions of some disks to level 0 dumps on Monday and Wednesday.
> I could just use
> "amadmin WeeklySet force machine-name" before the Friday dump but that
> would still not stop the mid-week promotions. Any ideas on how to
> accomplish this promotion prevention?
Why not define two diffrent amanda configs (FULL and INCR) with different
dumptype strategies (noinc vs. nofull or incronly) and let crond start
amdump with the desired amanda configuration?
Would this solve your problem?
Regards,
Thommy
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