Anyone?

 

Thanks.

 

Johan

 

From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Johan Booysen
Sent: 15 March 2011 12:25
To: [email protected]
Subject: monthly archive config

 

I'd really appreciate it if someone can just go over what I'm doing
below, so I don't miss out anything silly.

 

I'm using Amanda version 2.6.0p1, and finally cannot effectively make
full backups each night anymore, so I'm looking into using Amanda the
'classic' way and to set up another config for monthly full backups.

 

If I recall correctly, then something like this should work for the
monthly backup runs.  I simply made a copy of my daily config and am
just modifying the existing files, e.g. amanda.conf:

 

dumpcycle 0                       to make full backups on each run

runspercycle 1                   not really sure about this because
dumpcycle is 0??

tapecycle 12 tapes           one tape for each month of the year, but
will actually use 15 in the set up tapes for the odd amflush, if
necessary

 

index yes                             to generate the catalogue for use
by amrecover

record no                            apparently:  "This is normally
enabled for daily backups and turned off for periodic archival runs."
(Amanda wiki)

 

infofile "/etc/amanda/monthly/curinfo"

logdir   "/etc/amanda/monthly"

indexdir "/etc/amanda/monthly/index"

 

Other than that, because I made a copy of the daily config, I've cleaned
out the copied config folder's index and log files, and tapelist file.

 

Does that look sensible?

 

Thanks.

 

Johan

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