Hello, I am about to check if it is possible to implement a GFS-backup scheme we used with ArcServe:
There are 4 day-tapes day1-day4 which are used every week from Monday to Thursday in rotation, so only the tape with the oldest data is overwritten. There are 5 week-tapes week1-week5 which are used on the last work-day of the week (mostly friday) in rotation, so only the tape with the oldest data is overwritten. On the last work-day of the month a archival monthly backup which is never overwritten. Only full backups of the local host should be performed. My idea was to create 3 amanda tape sets: day: dumpcycle 0, runspercycle 1 day ???, tapecycle 4 tapes week: dumpcycle 0, runspercycle 1 day ???, tapecycle 5 tapes month: dumpcycle 0,runspercycle 1 day ???, tapecycle 999 tapes amdup will be called via wrapper script which determines what tape-set has to be used. Would this configuration work as I described above? Another problems could be public holidays. Would it be save to just not call amdump at this days? Would amanda be upset and confuse the rotation-cycle(not overwrite the oldest tape)? BTW, is it possible to browse through all index databases on the server with amrecover or is it mandantory to specify exactly one? Please CC, I'm not subscribed. Thanks in advance. -- Georg
