>On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 01:15:17PM -0500, Jeremy L. Mordkoff wrote: > > Okay....what are the settings for getting a full once every 3 days with >> backups 5 nights a week and 16 tapes? >> > > I tried >> dumpcycle 3 days >> runspercycle 3 >> tapecycle 16 tapes >> >> but that gives me fulls of everyone on Monday and what I want Tues thru >> Friday. I think the problem is when it fires up on Monday it thinks it >> is 2 days behind. How can I tell it to discount Saturday and Sunday? >> > > My cron file runs amdump Mon-Fri. >>
Do most amanda configs (with changers) run amdump every weekday (M-F) and skip running amdump on weekends? I see this sort of idiom stated as "the way" for Amanda, however I am not so sure this well-documented idiom is actually used in practice. Or is it? thx
