On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 at 11:39am, Ward Violanti wrote > Hi Joshua,
CCed back to the list so everybody gets to see (and nobody has to answer the same question twice (yeah, right)). > Yeah your right! I don't think we need daily incrementals for a year, > just the level 0's. Then as you suggested I should setup a second amanda > config for just the level 0's? Yep. > To do this I copy the DailySet1 directory to a new directory (weeklyset1), > and make changes to the amanda.conf file? how would I force a level 0 every > run of this config? > > What changes to the amanda.conf in the DailySet1 config would have to be > made, so that only incrementals are ran? Well, that's not *exactly* what I meant. What I do is run two wholly separate and independent configs, which happen to have very similar disklists. :) The Daily config is similar to yours -- a dumpcycle of 1 week and runspercycle (for me) of 5. The Archive config has a dumpcycle of 0 (this forces level 0s every amdump) and a *very* large tapecycle. It also has 'record no' in the dumptype so it doesn't interfere with the incrementals of the Daily config. This allows me, in the case of disaster, to recover everything from the Daily config only. Forcing amanda to do incrementals with one config and fulls with another can be done (look at incronly and nofull in the dumptype section of the sample amanda.conf), but I like having multiple layers of redundant redundancy. Redundantly. :) > What would you suggest for the "labelstr" in each of the config's, I don't > understand the syntax :-(. > The sample syntax: labelstr "^DailySet1-[0-9][0-9]*$" allows for labels like "DailySet1-01", "DailySet1-02", etc. Modify as appropriate. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
