On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 09:15:34AM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 01:38:18PM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote: > >> Forgot to mention this earlier: I'm not using incrementals at all. > >Tapes > >> from the same week will contain full backups of different directories, > >and > >> a given file is backed up (only) once a week. > > > >OK, I'll bite... How hard did you have to twist amanda's arm to convince > >her to do that? > > dumpcycle 1 week > .... > skip-incr
Tofalf's scheme raises a question in my mind about how does amanda handle this scheme. Maybe someone else has experience with something similar. Suppose I have lots of disklist entries. Further, suppose I use dumpcycle 7 days runspercycle 7 skip-incr Will amanda still try for balancing of the nightly dumpsize, simply ignoring the incrementals? Seems like it should. Anyone doing it? If so, Toralf's scheme, given his requirements may be quite reasonable. One thing Toralf; in other postings you mention backing up "files". And how it would be difficult to break things up to fit into tape size chunks. Be aware that amanda backs up "disklist entries", either file systems or directory trees. You don't tell it to backup a system and it picks and chooses which files to backup today. It picks and chooses which disklist entries to backup. Thus you still have to be concerned with your disklist entries fitting on a single tape. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
