On Tuesday 26 November 2002 10:50, Richard B. Tilley ""(Brad) wrote: >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
This also imply's that the drive must be big enough, and fast enough, to both hold the full system, and do it in a reasonable time frame. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.19% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
