Re: Is there a way to force a amdump - Monthly Backup at end of day from the command line.

2007-01-08 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
Hi List I just run as Amanda to create a Monthly Backup prior to the usually Last Friday of the Month. As Amanda User $ /usr/sbin/amdump Monthly Cheers On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 12:20 +, Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: Hi List I have a scare yesterday with our raid 5 a raid disk

Is there a way to force a amdump - Monthly Backup at end of day from the command line.

2007-01-05 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
. Is there a way to force a amdump - Monthly Backup at end of day from the command line. Cheers -- Unix/ Linux Systems Administrator Chuck Amadi The Surgical Material Testing Laboratory (SMTL), Princess of Wales Hospital Coity Road Bridgend, United Kingdom, CF31 1RQ. Email chuck.smtl.co.uk Tel

Re: Is there a way to force a amdump - Monthly Backup at end of day from the command line.

2007-01-05 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
increment backup and a last day on a friday full amanda backup. Is there a way to force a amdump - Monthly Backup at end of day from the command line. I don't fully understand your setup, but there's a couple of ways to force a full backup: 1) In your normal 'daily' setup, run 'amadmin $CONFIG

Re: Monthly backup

2006-11-01 Thread Steven Kurylo
1. Have a backup run once a month on the 1st. We have a config which only does full backups and cron schedules it to run at the start of the month. 2. Only backup data 7 months prior to todays date based on -mm format. Do you mean only keep 7 months worth of data? Then only put 7 tapes in

Re: Monthly backup

2006-11-01 Thread James Wilson
Well I have a folder lets say its called voice and in voice I have a bunch of folders in there labeled by date. Starting with todays date all the way back to 10-01-2005. I want to backup everything till may of 2006 for the. Then I'm going to delete all those files because I have them on tape.

Re: Monthly backup

2006-11-01 Thread Steven Kurylo
James Wilson wrote: Well I have a folder lets say its called voice and in voice I have a bunch of folders in there labeled by date. Starting with todays date all the way back to 10-01-2005. I want to backup everything till may of 2006 for the. Then I'm going to delete all those files because

Re: Monthly backup

2006-11-01 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 11:17:09AM -0800, Steven Kurylo wrote: James Wilson wrote: Well I have a folder lets say its called voice and in voice I have a bunch of folders in there labeled by date. Starting with todays date all the way back to 10-01-2005. I want to backup everything till may

Re: Monthly backup

2006-11-01 Thread James Wilson
the folder name doesn't change. for example if I have folders 2006-01 2006-02 2006-03 2006-04 And I only want to back up folders 2006-01 and 2006-02. Is this possible? To back up certain folders and not others in a particular directory. Steven Kurylo wrote: James Wilson wrote: Well I

Re: Monthly backup

2006-11-01 Thread James Wilson
This is a good idea. Thanks for your reply. Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 11:17:09AM -0800, Steven Kurylo wrote: James Wilson wrote: Well I have a folder lets say its called voice and in voice I have a bunch of folders in there labeled by date. Starting with todays date

Monthly Backup Problem

2004-05-03 Thread Kianusch Sayah Karadji
Hi! I use amanda 2.4.3 to make Daily and Monthly Backups to Tapes :) Daily works fine. My Monthly Backup is designed to make a level 0 from all available Data - which will not fit to one tape anyway - so the plan was to not put in a tape, and have amanda backup everything to the dumps Partition

Re: Monthly Backup Problem

2004-05-03 Thread Paul Bijnens
Kianusch Sayah Karadji wrote: My Monthly Backup is designed to make a level 0 from all available Data - which will not fit to one tape anyway - so the plan was to not put in a tape, and have amanda backup everything to the dumps Partition. After that use amflush to move the data from the partition

Re: Monthly Backup Problem

2004-05-03 Thread Kianusch Sayah Karadji
Hi! Not needed, just change maxdumpsize (or runtapes). Thanks ... that's what I was looking for. Why so complicated? Let it dump to one tape, and flush the rest in the morning to the other tape(s). Just configure Amanda a little bit more, to allow her to schedule all backups. Because at

Re: Monthly Backup Problem

2004-05-03 Thread Kianusch Sayah Karadji
maxdumpsize 90g taperalgo largestfit Those are 2.4.4 options ... I run 2.4.3 ,,, But I got the idea :) Kianusch

Re: Monthly Backup Problem

2004-05-03 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 10:01:47AM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: Kianusch Sayah Karadji wrote: [...] the plan was to not put in a tape, and have amanda backup everything to the dumps Partition. After that use amflush to move the data from the partition to tapes in several runs. Why so