"Carl D. Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm trying to setup an AMANDA backup system with the following >characteristics: > Full backup every Wednesday on a different weekly tape > Differential backup on Thurday, Friday, Monday, and Tuesday > Full backup on the last Wednesday of each month which is then > archived for a year. > >So far I've setup a Weekly configuration with runspercycle set to 0, >dumpcycle set to 0, and tapecycle set to 7. record is set to yes so >that differentials run on a daily basis will have a date that the last >full backup was done on. > >I have a Monthly configuration with runspercycle set to 0, dumpcycle set >to 0, and tapecycle set to 14. Again, record is set to yes for the sake >of the daily differentials. > >The Daily configuration is runspercycle set to 4, dumpcycle set to 1 >weeks, and tapecycle set to 7. > >I have cron setup to run "amdump Daily" on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, >and Friday; "amdump Weekly" on Wednesday for the first 3 (or 4) weeks of >the month; and "amdump Monthly" on the last Wednesday of the month. > >Does this sound like my configuration will do what I want? Or do I have >something really messed up? Any comments or suggestions would be >appreciated.
Comments or suggestions? You are trying to swim upstream. Tommy McGuire
