The parameter is used to help Amanda calculate when it should do level 0 vs. level 1 vs. level 2 backups.  *When* amanda (or rather, amdump) runs is dictated by your crontab.  Thus you could certainly do them on different days of the week.  Just ensure that your runspercycle/dumpcycle matches the number of invocations/week specified in your crontab.

On 2020-06-01 9:09 a.m., [email protected] wrote:
Hello all,

I am new to Amanda. Maybe my question will sound a bit silly but I have to
ask, because an uncountable number of time I've seen in the documentation
and in messages in this mailing list runspercycle set with a value of 5 and
immediately next to it (like a golden rule) the mention that amdump will
run 5 times per cycle excluding weekends?

My question is:  why excluding weekends? Is not possible to run amdump 5 times per week excluding Wednesday and Friday? Is there any correlation between the value
5 and the weekends?

Another related question: In a configuration with

   dumpcycle 7 days
   runspercycle 5

during a dumpcycle (a week) do I have to run amdump in the same days as in the previous dumpcycle or in the first dumpcycle I can run amdump during the days

    1 2 4 5 6

and in the second dumpcycle amdump can be run during the days

2 3 4 6 7?

Regards
Cristian










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