On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 15:26, Don Potter wrote: > 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.
I do the same. Three amanda directories 'daily' 'weekly' and 'monthly' that all use the same disklist. But I don't understand how they could conflict. They all have record set to yes. I don't archive the monthly tapes, I overwrite them every 5 months. Is it wrong to set all to record yes? Thanks, Brad > > 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 > > >
