On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 05:13, Nitesh Kumar A. wrote: > > Hai: > > I need some advice on this. I get confused with dumpcycles, etc. > > I need one full backup on the 1st day of every month. And then from sunday > to saturday through the entire month, I need to take incremental > backup. How do I take it? I mean incremental backup from the 1st day of > every month to the last day of the month.
Why not just do a level 0 each time amanda runs? The below options in your amanda.conf file will force amanda to do a full backup each time. So on a restore, you only need one tape. dumpcycle 0 runspercycle 1 tapecycle THE_NUMBER_OF_TAPES_THAT_YOU_HAVE
