Amanda is not so picky about tape rotations. As long as the scheme you use doesn't try to overwrite any backups which you've said you should still keep of a given partition, and the tape labels match the regexp in your amanda.conf, you can rotate the tapes any way you like.
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Georg Lutz wrote: > 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. > > -- ----- Marc Mengel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
