I have 17 ~50G tapes... I also have approximately 50G to backup.
I want to keep a reasonable Monthly archive as far back as possible as well as a Weekly archive in addition to the Daily dumps. Being new to amanda, I would like some feedback on my plan (or suggestions, tips, recommendations etc.): I plan to use 6 Daily tapes for M, Tu, W, Th, F, Sa + 1 spare. I plan to use 5 Weekly tapes, running amdump Weekly on Sunday with dumpcycle 0 (to force a full dump). ...and 5 Monthly tapes, running amdump Monthly on the 1st with dumpcycle 0 (to force a full dump). I would use three separate amanda.config directories to do this with the "disklist" symlinked between them. I will set a cron job to run all dumps skipping the Daily on Su and the Weekly and Daily on the 1st. I could touch and remove the "hold" file in each config at strategic points. Is this wise? Please let me know if I am on the right track here and any tips or alternate suggestions you might have. Thanks, Dick Kreutzer AmeriCom Inc. P.S. The first week of Daily dumps has run very well!
