Were I amanda's designer, I don't think I would have selected for
an unspecified dumpcycle, a number from the ether (is 10 another
of amanda's infamous compiled in values?). ...
It's not "from the ether". The amanda(8) man page clearly states that
the default value for dumpcycle is 10 days.
A-Ha! I was wondering what the answer to this would be, and now that you've
figured out what number it's returning, I know why. It does work, and it
does make sense! (to me anyway.)
define dumptype B {
# gets default dumpcycle of 10
}
...
dumpcycle 6
...
define dumptype A
I have additional information; perhaps someone
can now figure out what is going on.
Oh, **that** problem. :-)
If included at the begining of amanda.conf, the
dumpcycle is 10 days irrespective of my setting of
dumpcycle in amanda.conf. If DumpTypes is included
at the end of amanda.conf, my 7
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 03:44:53PM -0500, John R. Jackson wrote:
I have additional information; perhaps someone
can now figure out what is going on.
Oh, **that** problem. :-)
The bulldog in me!
Whenever you define a dumptype, a set of initial values are stored which
may then be
