Good question as I'm at about the same point with amanda.
I think the way you have it set up will only dump once during your 5 day long dumpcycle. Gene Heskette wrote this in response to an earlier question and it cleared things up a bit for me. Hope this helps. "dumpcycle" is the maximum number of days that can go by before a level 0 (full) must be done. "runspercycle" can be any number up to dumpcycle and be ok. But "tapecycle", which means the number of tapes in the rotation should be at least 2x the runspercycle else you will be in a situation wherein the last full backup is overwritten before the next full is due. " C White wrote: > i just wanted to make sure i had my amanda configured properly > > i want it to run a backup every weeknight, mon-fri > i only want it to do one full backup every week, with incrementals the > rest of the time > and i have six tapes in the 5 for backups and a 6th one for "flushes" > > here is my configuration: > > dumpcycle 5 days > runspercycle 1 > tapecycle 6 tapes > > is this correct or have i missed something here? > > everything else is running fine, however i've only been running it since > monday this week ;-) > > everyday at 4 amcheck looks to see if i need to change the tape, and > that is working fine, and every midnight the backup seems to run > properly, and the logs look fine, today it even reported to me that it > was going to move the full dump of 3 of the "directories" ahead 5 days > "Full dump of filezzz:/home promoted from 5 days ahead", or am i reading > that wrong > > all i all i am quite happy with amanda and i look forward to > implementing it here at work in the near future -- Scott Sanders Systems Administrator Concepts Direct, Inc. 2950 Colorful Ave. Longmont, CO 80504 (303) 682-7110 Phone (303) 682-7140 Fax
