On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 at 4:15pm, Tom Van de Wiele wrote > I have 5 tapes, for 5 workingdays a week. I backup 4 partitions, two > being on the tapehost itself, 2 on a remote host.
> Right now, the system does a backup every day (the dumptype is "always > full"). The 2 partitions on the host itself can do a full backup > everyday (no network traffic). The two other partitions on the other > host: I want to do a full dump on fridaynight, and during the week I > want incremental backups. Ah, the old "Do it my way!" desire. Is there a reason you want to force amanda into your schedule? Amanda works best (and easiest) when you let it make its own schedule. You can mix full-only and incrementals in one config, but not with your own schedule (unless (I think) you do an incr-only strategy for those partitions and then do an 'amadmin force' every Friday). To answer your question, the "easiest" way to do this is with two configs. > Is this more clear? Did I make a mistake in my configuration? (because > this seems to work) > > Again, my values: > > dumpcycle : 4 days > runspercycle: 5 days > tapecycle: 5 tapes Unless you're running amdump 5 times in 4 days, you want "dumpcycle 1 week" and "runspercycle 5". Also, if you start doing incrementals, you want more tapes. If, e.g., your tape drive eats a tape, it may well contain the only level 0 of a particular filesystem... -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
