On Sunday 13 February 2005 12:02, David Newman wrote: >Greetings. For backups to a server with one DLT-IV drive, I would > like to change the tape once per week. During the week, I would > like to do one full backup on day 1, and incremental backups on > days 2-5. > >To do this, I set "dumpcycle 1 week" and "runspercycle 5" and > "tapecycle 1 tapes". However, in the dump reports, I get this > message every dump, even on the incremental days:
Tapecycle is the number of tapes in the inventory that can be re-used. For you, the minimum would be at least 10. >planner: tapecycle (1) <= runspercycle (5) > planner: Full dump of hostname.networktest.com:/ promoted from 6 > days ahead. > >This sounds like amanda does a full dump each time. True? Yes, because it thinks its over-writing the last full level 0 with each new backup. >If so, what is the correct config for one full dump plus four > incremental dumps? > >This is for 2.4.4p4_2 on FreeBSD 4.10. > >Thanks! > >dn -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.33% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
