On 05/18/10 10:37, Joseph Spenner wrote:
> --- On Mon, 5/17/10, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> As previously mentioned, staggering backups on your clients is
>> fairly easy. A six-day backup cycle is *unusual*, because it
>> doesn't fit neatly into either weekly or monthly schedules, and
>> because w
On 05/18/10 13:45, Joseph Spenner wrote:
> --- On Tue, 5/18/10, Joseph Spenner wrote:
>
>
>> Ok, I do have a spare disk in my system I can use for the
>> 7th day. So, let's change the schedule such that I
>> have 3 sets of "7 disks", for a total of 21 disks.
>> Perhaps this will simplify the s
--- On Tue, 5/18/10, Joseph Spenner wrote:
> Ok, I do have a spare disk in my system I can use for the
> 7th day. So, let's change the schedule such that I
> have 3 sets of "7 disks", for a total of 21 disks.
> Perhaps this will simplify the scheduling. I still
> wish to have a full backup fo
--- On Mon, 5/17/10, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>
> As previously mentioned, staggering backups on your clients
> is fairly
> easy. A six-day backup cycle is *unusual*, because it
> doesn't fit
> neatly into either weekly or monthly schedules, and because
> we don't
> have an ideal calendar divide
On 05/17/10 17:53, Joseph Spenner wrote:
> Ok, it's not quite THAT bad! :)
OK, I possibly exaggerated a little for effect. :) The one time I
tried to get AMANDA set up, I really couldn't get anywhere with it,
because it seemed it was designed for "tell it what to back up how often
and what res
--- On Mon, 5/17/10, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>
> AMANDA has a totally different approach to backup
> scheduling than
> Bacula. And I'll come right out and say that AMANDA's
> approach makes my
> brain hurt. It's sort of like having a checkbook that
> promises it'll be
> balanced three times a m
On 05/17/10 16:11, Joseph Spenner wrote:
> --- On Mon, 5/17/10, John Drescher wrote:
>>> How would I configure such that it runs a full backup
>> every 6 "runs"?
>>
>> Make the full backup weekly in the schedule instead of
>> monthly.
>>
>>> By default, how many incrementals does it run before a
>
--- On Mon, 5/17/10, John Drescher wrote:
> > How would I configure such that it runs a full backup
> every 6 "runs"?
>
> Make the full backup weekly in the schedule instead of
> monthly.
>
> > By default, how many incrementals does it run before a
> full backup is run?
>
> This is set by you
> My goal is to have the schedule such that there is always a FULL backup of
> every host on each set of disks. I'm not very clear of the syntax of the
> config file though. I currently have the default which all my clients are
> currently using:
>
> Schedule {
> Name = "WeeklyCycle"
> Run =
