Re: strategy

2003-06-04 Thread Bruce Fletcher
On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 12:57 AM, Paul Bijnens wrote: Paolo Supino wrote: more (idiotic) questions: Do the global dumpcycle and the one inside the backup type mean the same thing? If so do they have to have the same entry? and then what should I put in the global dumpcycle, runspercycle

Re: strategy

2003-06-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 07:31:18AM -0700, Bruce Fletcher wrote: And how does one cope as data storage requirements start to increase? My understanding is that you can do the following: - if necessary, label a few more tapes and increase the tapecycle And probably increase runtapes to allow

Re: strategy

2003-06-04 Thread Paul Bijnens
Bruce Fletcher wrote: On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 12:57 AM, Paul Bijnens wrote: The global dumpcycle can be overruled for some specific dumptypes. So that you can have e.g. a global dumpcycle of 7 days, but a few important DLE's can specify a dumpcycle 0 (= full backups allways). Runspercycle

Re: strategy

2003-06-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 08:43:21PM +0300, Paolo Supino wrote: Hi Last week I installed amanda on a new network and in the configuration I gave it: strategy noinc. For some unkonwn reason amanda ignored the strategy and complained about not being able to complete incremental backups.

RE: strategy

2003-06-03 Thread Paolo Supino
? and then what should I put in the global dumpcycle, runspercycle and tapecycle? TIA Paolo -Original Message- From: Jon LaBadie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 9:42 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: strategy On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 08:43:21PM

Re: strategy

2003-06-03 Thread Gene Heskett
: Jon LaBadie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 9:42 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: strategy On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 08:43:21PM +0300, Paolo Supino wrote: Hi Last week I installed amanda on a new network and in the configuration I gave it: strategy noinc. For some

Re: strategy

2003-06-03 Thread Paul Bijnens
Paolo Supino wrote: more (idiotic) questions: Do the global dumpcycle and the one inside the backup type mean the same thing? If so do they have to have the same entry? and then what should I put in the global dumpcycle, runspercycle and tapecycle? The global dumpcycle can be overruled for some

Re: strategy

2003-06-03 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Hi, let's clarify this a bit: the dumptype called global is a dumptype like any other in amanda.conf. if you want the entrys in this dumptype in another dumptype, you'll have to include it in this dumptype explicitly with a line containing his name in your self made dumptype. This line should be