Also Sprach Richard B. Tilley (Brad): > On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 05:13, Nitesh Kumar A. wrote:
> > 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 > That's fine if there is enough tape to do lev 0 dumps of all his filesystems every night or if it doesn't matter if the filesystems are static and it doesn't matter if a restore is not up to date. But if neither is true then you need lev 1 incrementals to keep the restores current without eating up lots of tape. Lev 1's are also easier to restore than a full dump. With a file that changes a lot, e.g. a source code tree, you can usually go to the latest incremental and not have to wade through a potentially much larger lev 0. If you have lots of holding disk space you can dump everything to holding disk, then just write lev 0's to tape. Keep the lev 1's on disk until the end of the week, then flush the end of week lev 1's to tape and delete the others. ---- C. Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Public Key ( pgp.mit.edu | finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) "Lif is laene: eal sceaceth, leoht ond lif samod"
