On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 at 8:03am, Dan Smith wrote
> OK, right now, I do a full backup every night. That's obviously not going
> to work forever ;). How can I run a full backup once a week and
> incrementals every day?
>
> Right now, my dumpcycle is set at 0 for everything. That makes it do a full
> backup every night, right? So, what do I need to set the dumpcycle to in
> order for it to run incremental? If dumpcycle isn't where I do it, then can
> someone help me out?
dumpcycle 1 week
runspercycle 5
Which assumes backups only on weeknights. Make runspercycle 6 if you want
one job over the weekend as well.
> Also, I thought I read somewhere that amanda would try to balance
> incrementals throughout the cycle or something like that. I don't want it
> to. I just want a full backup on the weekend and an incremental every night.
As has been discussed *many* times on this list, amanda works best when
you let it decide when to do the backups (which, granted, is tough for all
of us who are used to diligently planning the backup schedule). You *can*
force amanda to do fulls only on the weekend (via amadmin force and/or
separate configs), but it's really more trouble than it's worth.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
