On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 03:05:06PM -0400, Gabriel O'Brien wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm using amanda to back up three servers using tpchanger "chg-disk". > > Everything is working fine, however due to the fact that I don't have a > real tape changer I'd like to be able to take a given snapshot of all > systems from time to time and burn it to DVD. I've already configured > the virtual tapes to be somewhat smaller than a DVD. > > From what I understand "dumpcycle" only specifies that a full dump must > happen (at least) every 7 days but otherwise it attempts to distribute > those full dumps from various filesystems. Is there a way of enforcing > this automatically so that there is a predictable schedule when a dump > will contain a full backup of everything (i.e.: every Thursday night)?
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