On Thu, 4 May 2006, Luis Rodrigues wrote: > The normal everyday amanda incremental backup saves all the touched files to > the holding disk?
Yes. > If the file is changed 5 times in a backup cicle it will get backed up 5 > times? if so how do > I access it using amandarecover? By specifying the date of the version you want to recover. > On Thu, 4 May 2006 10:26:39 -0400 > Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 03:52:07PM +0200, Luis Rodrigues wrote: > > > I've just started a job at a new company. They have an backup system with > > > everyday copies the touched files > > > to a disk on a backup server and on the weekend it makes a 0 level to > > > tape. > > > > > > They say the system is not really relayable because some times they don't > > > find the files an want a new one. > > > > > > So I will install amanda. > > > > > > The problem is that they want to keep the old backup touched files each > > > day and zero level on the weekend. > > > In http://www.amanda.org/docs/topten.html#id2552255 says this is not > > > possible. > > > > > > So I will use amanda with a weekly cycle so that at saturday everyting is > > > backuedup. > > > > > > But I still need to incremental backup the touched files since last > > > inscremental, is it possible to force amanda to > > > (in its runs during week) first copy to backup server the touched files > > > and them some others? > > > > > > > You can nearly mimic what they have been doing. Not necessarily my > > recommendation, but sometimes "ya gotta do what da boss sais ya gotta do". > > > > Think of their current backup disk as amanda's "holding disk". > > Set up your amanda config to 'autoflush" the holding disk whenever > > it actually does tape. > > Set up your config to not do level 0's except when forced with amadmin. > > I forget if this is "skip-full" or "incr-only". > > Set up amanda to use a symbolic link to the tape device, eg. > > /dev/amandatape. > > This will be missing normally, so incremental backups will collect on the > > holding disk, waiting to autoflush. > > Set up your daily cron job to "rm amandatape" then amdump. > > Set up your weekend cronjob to amadmin force level 0's, create the symbolic > > tape device link, then do amdump, the rm amandatape. > > The entire week will go to tape. > > > > > If so what will happen if a file is changed two times in one week? > > > > You will have a copy of each version. > > During the week you can still use amrecover to get at the > > incrementals collecting on the holding disk. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
