For archival purposes, personnaly I use a combination of your two solutions. I use a different config of Amanda with "dumpcycle 0", "strategy noinc", but the main goal of a different config for me is concerning the logs: it's easier to restore data if your archives are not in the middle of your incremental backups. Moreover if you play with the "no-reuse" option in the middle of your daily backups, one day you will forget to no-use a tape and erase your precious data...
I like my solution because I run 2 different separated configs which have no relation between each other, one for my daily backups and one for my archives when I have to archive some data. On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 17:35:38 +0200 Toralf Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reviewing the amanda config again in conjunction with a tape format > update... > I forget (and list search doesn't return anything conclusive): How do > you people recommend handling archival runs? There are two obvious ways: > > 1. Via a special config. > 2. Using the normal config, but special labels and "amadmin ... no-reuse" > > What are the pros and cons of each of these? > > Note: I know that one argument against 2) is that you normally want > different behaviour with regard to incrementals, but that doesn't really > apply in my case as there are no incrementals in any case (in the main > config; I have a separate one for incrementals as they are written to a > different medium.) > > - Toralf >
