On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 12:47:56PM -0800, Andrius D. Ilgunas wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Jon LaBadie <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Again, you are thinking there will be a weekly full dump. Unless that > > is a separate config that does only full dumps, and you run it once > > each dumpcycle. Sounds like a lot of duplication of effort. > > > > You're right, and I see now how my understanding was a bit off the mark. I > wasn't intending to run a separate config just to ensure full dumps on > Sundays, but I was under a misconception. Thanks for correcting that! >
Note, a separate archive config has its place. One client had a regulatory requirement to maintain "permanant data backups". He used a separate config and the tapes were couriered to a secure data vault. I used to have an archive config. One use I had for it was before major changes to a system. I could manually run amdump for those file system or disks that were going to be affected. BTW, the traditional style of backups is "possible" with Amanda. One way is to set the config with a strategy of incremental only. Then in your in your crontab, for the day you want full backups you use amdump options to override the normal strategy and to force full dumps. She's quite flexible. Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie [email protected] 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) Reston, VA 20190 (609) 477-8330 (C)
