Dan,
Why? Balancing incrementals and fulls across the entire dumpcycle is a
feature. It reduces your risk (what if the full backup tape goes bad and you
need to restore?) and allows you to get more backups in the same number of
tapes. It allows you to just put in the next tape, instead of worrying about
which set of tapes to pull from. It allows you to add more tapes to the set
and have them used efficiently.
Now, having heard all that, if you still really want to do it, there is a
way. You will need two separate backup configurations sharing a common
database. Configure one to always do full backups, and the other to do
incrementals only. (Search the list archives for "incr-only" if you need
more info.)
Good Luck,
Paul
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 8:04 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: How to do Incrementals
>
>
> 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?
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --Dan
>
