On Friday, August 06, 2010 11:41:32 am McGraw, Robert P did opine: > Using amanda 3.1.1 on Solaris 10 x86 > > I presently run a daily backup every day with > > dumpcycle 7 > runspercycle 0
Side comment Robert, but if you are doing it daily, then runspercycle should also be 7. Your are in effect telling amanda its only being run once per week. > tapecycle 30 tapes > > Once a month I run an archive in place of a daily backup which we store. > This is working ok. > > Looking through the sbin directory I see the amvault program. > > Instead of running my archive once a month I would like to be able to > copy all the level 0 from one of my daily dumpcycle to my archive > tapes. Because amanda shuffles the level schedule, its likely that no one of your weekly backups will be all level 0's. Amanda does this to equalize, within the limits of the sizes of the dle's, the amount of media used per run. So you will have to pick and chose, and while it at it, compose a "monthly" database of index files that it could use for recovery purposes that contains only those level 0's being archived. I do not know if anyone has written that function yet, the man page for amvault in 3.1.2 looks like it could be a start, but for immediate use, I would simply force a run at all level 0's in a separate "Monthly" (from the "Daily" most of us use) configuration directory alongside the Daily one. That would require a 2nd batch of tapes to be labeled for that use, and probably a "runtapes" setting greater than 1, depending on the size of a full level 0 backup. And holding disk big enough to hold it all if someone forgets to reload the library with the monthly tapes if its set to run on the 1st of the month by a crontab entry. I believe the phrase is "stuff happens?" ;-) > Robert > > > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > Robert P. McGraw, Jr. > Manager, Computer System EMAIL: [email protected] > Purdue University ROOM: MATH-807 > Department of Mathematics PHONE: (765) 494-6055 > 150 N. University Street > West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067 -- 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) Sank heaven for leetle curls.
