--On Wednesday, July 17, 2002 15:20:53 -0400 C White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
You probably want:
dumpcycle 7 days (a full at least once a week)
runspercycle 5 (you're running Amanda 5 times during that time period)
tapecycle 12 (6 would technically work, but you run the risk of overwriting
your last full dump if you have problems. 2 x runspercycle +
a couple of spares is a much safer number. If you have trouble
restoring from a tape, having another backup from two weeks
ago is much better than no backup at all)
Good luck,
Frank
>
> 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
>
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