I have to create both weekly and monthly archives that go offsite. I just use amadmin to force a full backup on the appropiate day. I set whatever tapes were used as no-reuse and, if necessary, add replacements into the rotation. Because the monthly tapes never rotate back in, every so often I go in and remove them from the tapelist by hand. The weekly fulls rotate on a four week cycle so I mark them as reuse when I put them back into the changer magazine.
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Don Potter wrote: - Okay..I know the virtues of amanda allowing it to do all of the backup - scheduling itself (full and incremental), and I think that it is really - kewl..... - - BUT.....when your client base is used to 1st of the month full-backups I - have to adjust acordingly (so sayeth the boss man). - - That being said (and trying to apease the group that I support) could I - do the following and obtain that same effect: - - dumpcycle 31 days - runspercycle 31 days (daily backups.....weekends included) - tapecycle 31 tapes - - I have a 6 slot tapechanger so I will be changing the tapes at the end - cycle and putting in new tapes. I can do a amadmin Daily force of all - my hosts and filesystems initally and take those tapes out of rotation, - and at the end of the tapecycle (I'm assuming I wouldn't need to do a - amadmin Daily no-reuse since they won't be in the changer at all) and - once the first of the month rolls around do the force again and once - again pull those tapes out of rotation. The level 0 would be out of the - rotation for basically forever. - - Does this sound viable????? - - BTW...this is an inital implementation... - - Don - - - - -- -- Stephen Carville UNIX and Network Administrator DPSI (formerly Ace USA Flood Services) 310-342-3602 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
