Paul Bijnens wrote:
>
> BRINER Cedric wrote:
> >
> > Imagine that during the christmass vacation nobody stay in the company,
> > so no more people are going to modify any files... Is there a way to
> > tell amanda to suspend is work for 1 week..without stressing it when we
> > restart..
>
> First let me start by stating that it is not necessary.
> And some files will be modified: incoming email, several logfiles
> Just let amanda go on, and it will dump to the holdingdisk.
> When dumping to disk without tape amanda saves space by doing only
> incremental backups (unless you specify to reserve less than 100% for
> the incremental backups with the parameter 'reserve' in amanda.conf).
> So when you're off for a few days, amanda keeps doing the backups
> (mostly incremental) to disk, and when you come back, you can flush
> them to tape ("amflush config"), all to one tape if you like (and if
> it fits, otherwise amanda will ask for more tapes).
> Even with a small holdingdisk this is useful (mine is 4 GByte and I have
> to backup a total of 195 GByte).
>
> >
> > I have no idea on how to proceed, anyone, anyone I was thinking to
> > mofify the dumpcyle by make it bigger of 1 week...and then after ??
>
> But if you really, really want to temporarily shut down amanda, just
> comment out the crontab entry on your amandaserver.
> Or modify it to something like:
>
> 5 * * * 2-6 test -e ~amanda/DoNotBackup || amdump daily
Yeah but the problem is that amanda has to schedule at least one full
backup
in a dumpcycle... So let's suppose it is @ 2weeks and I shut the system
down for
1 week....then amanda will try to push 2 times more of full backup in
the next week
$ )...
I thought about making bigger the dumpcycle of n days if I want to stop
amanda
for n days...and slowly come back at my original value...
>
> and you can indicate the go/no-go with the presence of absence of a file
> named "DoNotBackup" in the amanda home directory.
>
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