On 27 Jan 2002, Dan Smith wrote:
- I want to (once a month) do a backup of all disks. My tapes are not
- large enough to fit the whole thing, so I need to spread it across 3
- tapes or so. I was thinking of setting up a 1-day dumpcycle with 3
- runspercycle and just do all three dumps on a saturday. I don't think
- this is the best way to do it, since anything that has changed between
- dumps will be backed up incremental to the 2nd or third run.
-
- Is there any way to do this elegantly? I was thinking I could also
- setup 3 jobs and spread the disks out among them, but that would be
- more work, and I'd like for amanda to organize the dumps so they best
- fill out each tape.
-
- Does anyone have any advice?
In amanda.conf define:
define dumptype always-full {
global
compress none
priority high
dumpcycle 0
}
Then in disklist put something like:
server /volume {
always-full
}
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