On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 11:53 -0500, Brian Cuttler wrote: > Anderson, > > I do something similar. Having an LTO3 what we don't change the > tape in (this particular jukebox in the the favorite one onsite) > we needed to extend the dumpcycle - or rather, the ability to > recover files more than a week and a half old (the number of runs > we get using 16 tapes in the jukebox, 5 runs/week and more than > one tape/run). > > We continue to use the older L9/LTO jukebox for a once/week run > and I have the current relevent parameters set > > dumpcycle 1 weeks > runspercycle 1 > tapecycle 20 tapes > runtapes 9 > > I suppose you could also use the dumptype "alwaysfull" > > I get multiple runs from the tapecycle and have no trouble > pulling data from the older tapes. Of course I use amrestore > rather than amrecover, if that is what you are asking about... > > Sorry - I want to be really clear - I have two amanda configs > on the system, one for 5/week and one for weekly (1/week), called > apropriately from cron. > > If you are using a single config and want to force a weekly > level 0 for offsite or achive, I did that on a different system, > I have a friday morning cron entry that invokes # amadmin force
...and to also be clear, you are running this secondary, once-a-week, full-only run with "record no", correct? Paul > > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 11:41:10AM -0500, Krahn, Anderson wrote: > > Here's a question i have created a new configuration file for a second > > run that will be a full offsite run. > > My requirements are to have > > a) a full run once a week > > b) a rotation of 3 weeks before re-writing to a tape in the tape list. > > > > > > > > here are my current parameters in amanda.conf > > > > > > dumpcycle 0 weeks # the number of days in the normal dump cycle > > > > runspercycle 3 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days -- > > i believe this should be "0" too. > > > > > > tapecycle 4 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation > > > > > > My question is considering the dumpcycle is 0 would i be able to restore > > from a tape that is 2 weeks old? > > I believe the answer is yes becuase i dont think amanda expires data on > > a tape? > > > > Thanks, > > Anderson > > > > > > > > > --- > Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Computer Systems Support (v) 518 486-1697 > Wadsworth Center (f) 518 473-6384 > NYS Department of Health Help Desk 518 473-0773 > > > > IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain > confidential or sensitive information which is, or may be, legally > privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure. It > is intended only for the addressee. If you received this in error or > from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, please do not > distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. Please notify the > sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this from your > system. Thank you for your cooperation. > > -- Design Engineer Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/
