>... Amanda's way of attempting to balance the backup
>load throughout the dumpcycle messing up my schedule. ...
Seems to me you're the one messing up Amanda's schedule :-) :-).
In addition to the idea from Thommy, you could create one file like this
called "full":
define dumptype full_or_incremental {
strategy noinc
}
and another like this in a file named "incremental":
define dumptype full_or_incremental {
strategy nofull
}
then in your amanda.conf have this line early on:
includefile "full_or_incremental"
and have every dumptype (or global) reference the above dumptype
(full_or_incremental):
define dumptype global {
...
full_or_incremental
}
The amdump cron job then sets a symlink of full_or_incremental to either
"full" or "incremental" depending on what day it is.
today=`date '+%A'`
rm -f full_or_incremental
if [ $today = Friday ]
then
ln -s full full_or_incremental
else
ln -s incremental full_or_incremental
fi
amdump ...
>Bill Campbell
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
