I understand how Amanda will spread full and incremental backups along the dumpcycle
depending on dumpcycle, tapecycle, and runspercycle values. However, let us assume
that we want Amanda to perform full backups on Sundays and incrementals on the
remaining days.
I can use a separate "Full" config that performs dumpcycle 0's whenever it is run. My
question is that for the incrementals,even if I have the following below as a separate
dumptype under the "Weekdays" config,
define Weekdays {
program "GNUTAR"
compress none
index
strategy incronly
}
"Weekdays" config will always have to initally make a level 0 dump since it can not
see the index info generated by the "Full" config, all subsequent backups after this
will be incremental. There is no way I can avoid making the extra initial full backup
by allowing the "Weekdays" config to see the index created by "Full" config right?
Thanks.
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