1) Yes, you can run two schedules, just don't send requests from both at the same time. AMANDA clients assume that they are only talking to one server at a time. `cp -r /amanda/Config1/* /amanda/Config2/` or so.
2) FAQ-O-Matic, flaky but informative: http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/28.html 3) You might not want to do this, depending on WHY you think you should do it: - If you're building a second set of tapes to go off site, then a second configuration is probably the right way to go. - If you are doing this because AMANDA is only doing full backups every three weeks, you could just reduce dumpcycle to 5 and get full backups every week. - If you don't like AMANDA spreading full backups over all the tapes to reduce your loss in case of a media failure, then there are a variety of commercial backup packages that haven't figured this out yet. Or a force command noted in the above FOM. > -----Original Message----- > From: Wayne Byarlay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 10:02 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: two schedules simultaneously? > > > Greetings. > > I currently run Amanda with a 15-day dump cycle, Mon-Fri, called > "DailySet1". > > I want to know if it's possible to do the following: > > 1. Make DailySet1 only run Mon-Thur; > 2. Create a "WeeklySet1", with a 5-tape rotation, scheduled > for Fridays, > doing a level 0 on all filesystems. > > I was reading the book and it says you can do full archival dumps by > "creating a new AMANDA configuration with its own set of > tapes". This sounds > similar to what I want to do but not exactly. Does this mean > create a whole > 'nother instance of AMANDA in some other directory(my guess), > or just create > the "WeeklySet1" file? The way it sounds, one instance of a > total AMANDA > configuration can only use one schedule set. > > any other thoughts on this, too, are indeed welcome. > > Thanks, > > Wayne Byarlay > Purdue University Libraries >
