We're in the process of replacing our BRU (inflexible) and Arkeia (buggy) with Amanda. Everything's gone well with installation et al, but I'm confused about dumpcycles, etc.
Specifically, I have; - 3 tapes per day (about 150Gb to be backed up). Each day's backup is a 'full' backup i.e. no differential or incremental - 5 days per week (Monday - Friday) - 5 weeks worth of tapes (75 in all) to be cycled. My initial thoughts were simply dumpcycle 35 # 5 'real' weeks runspercycle 25 tapecycle 75 # nospares! But this will involve incremental/differential which I don't want. So, I tried; dumpcycle 0 tapecycle 75 This worked, but Amanda is now happy to overwrite any tape in the set other than the most recently used (i.e. yesterday's). I want error messages if any of the tapes are used before their 5 week validity is up. So, I'm now thinking; dumpcycle 35 runspercycle 25 tapecycle 75 and adding strategy noinc to my disklist. Will this force Amanda to do full backups each run, and also preserve the tapes for the full dumpcycle? I'm also unsure about how to slot an archive into the mix. I take quarterly archives, but how does one do this with Amanda? Setting up a separate archive backup set is obvious, but is there an elegant way to slot this into the run? The only way I can see is to massage the crontab, to take the 'Daily' run out in favour of the 'Quarterly' archive when the time comes. Pretty clunky, but if that's the way to do it, it's a small price to pay. Thanks in advance Bryan Tonnet [EMAIL PROTECTED]
