>... There's years worth of stuff in the archive, and I've no clue where to
>start. Can anyone be more specific?
Well, I had hoped "I just answered" and "yesterday" would be enough
clues :-), and they probably would have been, except, as someone else
just posted, the archives apparently stopped working on 11-July. Sigh.
So I've appended the response I was referring to.
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>I'd like to do something like:
> -- level 1 dump on Monday thru Thursday night without tape change
> -- 4 incremental back up jobs at one tape
> -- weekly full dump on another one tape
> -- 5 weeks cycle, so that total 10 tapes
So the full dump would be on (e.g.) Friday (or the weekend)?
Assuming the above, I think it would go like this:
* dumpcycle "1 week"
* runspercycle 5
* tapecycle 10
* Leave "reserve" alone (i.e. let it default to 100%). That will
prevent Amanda from doing full dumps into the holding disk.
* On Monday through Thursday, just don't mount a tape. Amanda will
drop back to "degraded" mode and do incrementals into the holding
disk.
* After the Thursday amdump (e.g. Friday during the day), mount
whatever tape amcheck (or "amadmin <config> tape") says Amanda wants
to use next and do an amflush, telling it to write all the holding
disk areas it finds.
* After the amflush, run "amadmin <config> force <client>" for each
client in your disklist to force the next run to do a full dump (a
simple script could help automate this).
* Mount another tape (whatever amcheck or amadmin wants). When the
next amdump happens, it will do all full dumps to it, assuming they
will fit on a single tape.
>... And any requirements?
You'll need enough holding disk space for all the incrementals done
Monday through Thursday.
The above may do other than level 1 backups, depending on how big the
images get (i.e. if Amanda thinks it would be worthwhile, spacewise, to
go to level 2, or above). If you really only want it to do level 1's,
set bumpdays in amanda.conf to (e.g.) 100. That should prevent it from
automatically bumping to a higher level.
