I do
an archival run once a month. I have a separate config called "Archive." It's
identical to my DailySet config, except it gets run once a month. What I do to
make it run full backup is just issue an "amadmin" command using the force
option to make each client do a full backup.
I
issue the amadmin command by hand, but it would be easy to put it into a cron
script. In fact it would be easy to put the amadmin followed by the amdump, and
include error checking, into a cron script.
Example amadmin command:
amadmin Archives force <amanda client hostname>
Michael Martinez
-----Original Message-----
From: Cory Visi
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Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 3:38
AM
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Subject: Re: Avoiding
incremental backups (how?)
None of these suggestions made a difference. The archival backup continues to do level 1 and 2 backups. Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
Cory
Jay Lessert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/31/2002 11:57 AM
To: Cory Visi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
cc:
Subject: Re: Avoiding incremental backups (how?)
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 04:13:11AM -0500, Cory Visi wrote:
> I have been trying to make an archival tape configuration for some time
> now. I have tried numerous suggestions, but nothing seems to be effective
> in stopping Amanda from doing incremental backups. I am using Amanda
> 2.4.3b4.
> The point of this configuration is to run once every 4 weeks and always do
> a full backup to tape. There are two tapes in the rotation and one is
> aways off-site.
>
> My amanda.conf:
>
> dumpcycle 0
> runspercycle 2
That doesn't make sense, use 'runspercycle 1' I think this is
what is confusing amanda.
> tapecycle 2 tapes
>
> define dumptype comp-root-full {
> record no
> index yes
> comment "Root partitions with compression"
> compress client fast
> priority low
> skip-incr yes
That's not what you want. Set 'strategy noinc'
Here's the setup that works for me. (I run the tape once and keep
it offsite forever, but I don't see why your 'tapecycle 2' shouldn't
work.)
dumpcycle 0 days
runspercycle 1
tapecycle 1 tapes
define dumptype always-full {
comment "Full dump always, no compression, no record"
program "DUMP"
maxdumps 2
compress none
index yes
record no
strategy noinc
}
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