On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 at 1:35pm, Robert SHEN wrote > 1) how amanda records how many runs performed in a dumpcycle? Let's say > if dumpcycle=7 and runspercycle = 5 and what happens if I configure 6 > cron jobs to run from monday to friday
Then you'll get extra backups -- I don't think it'll confuse amanda too much. Note that dumpcycle has units -- I'm assuming you mean 7 days. > > 2) what happens if runspercycle > dumpcycle? Then you're telling amanda that you plan on running it more than once a day (again, assuming your units on dumpcycle is days), and you'd better do so or amanda will get very unhappy. > 3) if I want to apply the following strategy, what config should I put? > Monday full backup for a directory /home/public > Tuesday->Friday incremental backup of /home/public ARRRRGH! :) Why? This has been discussed *many* times. You *can* force amanda into your schedule. But, unless you have a very good reason why, then it really is best to let amanda set the schedule. It does a very good job at it. If you must do it, the canonical method is via two configs, one which does the full (via a dumpcycle=0 dumptype) and one which does only incrementals. > 4) What suggestion for disaster recovery? > A boot floppy/CD with, minimally, mt, dd, and tar/restore, and possibly with the amanda tools. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
