I run two seperate configs (Daily vs. Monthly) with the same list of disklist entries and devices (holding disks, tape drive). But with the Monthly config I have record set to no and the dump type in the disklist set as always-full. I pick an arbitrary day (usually the first Monday of a month) and I will run the Monthly backup (for off-site storage) and then I will continue with the Daily config on all other days.
With the Monthly record set to no the /etc/dumdpates is never touched and doesn't conflict with the Daily runs. Don Morse, Richard E. wrote: >Hi! I'd like to, in addition to my current backup setup, have a series of >archival snapshots that I take every other month or so. This is an issue, >because I was just asked to retrieve a file from 1998, which was (hopefully) >backed up under a previous sysadmin, in some form or other, but which I'm having >difficulty accessing. I'd like to prevent that from being an issue in the >future. > >I was wondering if there was a way to run an archival backup without disturbing >my current regular backup as well. One possibility that occured would be to >have amanda somehow keep the level 0 dump images on the holding disk and flush >them to disk during the day (the regular backup runs at night), when I could >have a separate set of tapes to insert. > >The reason for doing this is that I can't run the archival backup during the day >(the systems are in use), but I don't have a tape changer, and I don't want to >stop doing my standard backups during this period -- because if I'm doing a >level 0 of every disk, it will reset the last 'level 0 date' for the standard >backup as well, which might then not do a level 0 as frequently as I'd like for >the regular backup... > >Any suggestions? > >Thanks, >Ricky > >----------------------------------------------------- >Richard Morse System Administrator >MGH Biostatistics Center 50 Staniford St. Rm 560 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] 617/724-9830 >
