Hi, On Jan 06, David Lebel wrote: | I'm new to Amanda; I'm more used to "traditional" solutions like | Networker or NetBackup. That being said, the setup I'm currently | administrating has been put in place by my predecessor and I'm wondering | if people are using Amanda in an "offsite" strategy, where there is one | "cycle" of tapes offsite (usually a few weeks old) and another cycle | residing onsite (ie. the current ongoing cycle). | | My point is that I would like to be able to store a full cycle offsite | in case of a disaster so I can full rebuild all my machines without the | worries of having only partials full backups.
i think that the easiest way is to have two amanda configurations: * one regular configuration with N tapes residing onsite * one configuration for weekly/monthly/.. level 0 dumps for offsite There are different ways to get this to work nicely together, i think. My second configuration has "dumpcycle" and "runspercycle" set to 0, a high value for tapecycle, and runtapes > 1 Additionally, i set "record" to no so that the regular config still does level 0 dumps.
