Re: Backup plan needs advice.

[bao]

Jon LaBadie wrote:

On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:12:01AM -0700, bao wrote:
 

Hi Martin

I forgot to state that this is a tapeless setup to back up to disk. Then 
the full backup will be transferred to tape,
and also is kept on disk for one week.

   

I am _not_ letting Amanda schedule as to when to do a full backup, as is 
recommended. What I want
(actually, my boss) is to force it to run a full every Monday, then a 
level 1 every other day for the rest of
the week, according to the most recent Monday.

I hope the above helps clarify it.
   

I'm not familiar with the various "strategy" and other related options,
but can you set a strategy that always does a "no-full" or "only-incremental"
AND can also be forced with amadmin to do full dumps on demand?
 

Jon, I am reluctant to try that, although I agree that it is a good 
candidate. This is
because we had to do a recover yesterday, when I didn't think that the 
system was ready
for it. Such a relief that it worked, because a major part of the data 
was deleted accidentally :)

Back to my question, if I configure it as you suggested, would the 
incrementals have any idea
of the previous forced full dump, and continue on from that point? Or 
would they go on after
the ...very first full backup??

If yes, perhaps you can use just a single configuration.  The incremental only
strategy would only cause incrementals daily except the one following your
forced "amadmin full"  Then dump that "file tape" to real tape.
 

If the answer to the question above is yes, then it would also work with 
two configurations
(and if the incrementals have an idea about the full). If so, the next 
question arises is do I need
to have "record yes" in the full config, in order for the incrementals 
to know??

Thanks Jon.