On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 03:55:27PM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > > Should work. But, check your amanda.conf and see what the value of > "usetimestamps" is. It should be "yes" if you want to do this. > > I believe that the dumcycle will be seen as 7 runs of amdump in any > case. So, if you run it twice in a day, your dumpcycle will end up > being shortened by one day (if you think in days), meaning that you > will end up getting full backups of all DLEs within that shortened > period (though still 7 runs of amdump). I haven't actually tested > that myself.
Interesting point Chris, what is the effect of extra, OR missed, amdump runs on the effective dumpcycle? - if an extra amdump is run, is the dumpcycle shortened because the number of runs, as in runs-per-cycle, is reached quicker - does running amdump with host or dle arguments work have the same effect or are such runs ignored in terms of runs-per-cycle - if a server is down and misses a run, is the dumpcycle extended, because it takes longer to reach runs-per-cycle or might the number of days in the dumpcycle compensate for the missed run Must be a fun calculation, especially when runs-per-cycle doesn't match dumpcycle days and DLEs vary in their dumpcycle. Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie [email protected] 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) Reston, VA 20190 (609) 477-8330 (C)
