John shed some light from a previous thread......I'll basically be required to maintain two seperate configs as to allow the Daily runs correctly and still maintain Full backups for off-site storage.
My brain is fried now..... Don Don Potter wrote: > Okay..I know the virtues of amanda allowing it to do all of the backup > scheduling itself (full and incremental), and I think that it is > really kewl..... > > BUT.....when your client base is used to 1st of the month full-backups > I have to adjust acordingly (so sayeth the boss man). > > That being said (and trying to apease the group that I support) could > I do the following and obtain that same effect: > > dumpcycle 31 days > runspercycle 31 days (daily backups.....weekends included) > tapecycle 31 tapes > > I have a 6 slot tapechanger so I will be changing the tapes at the end > cycle and putting in new tapes. I can do a amadmin Daily force of all > my hosts and filesystems initally and take those tapes out of > rotation, and at the end of the tapecycle (I'm assuming I wouldn't > need to do a amadmin Daily no-reuse since they won't be in the changer > at all) and once the first of the month rolls around do the force > again and once again pull those tapes out of rotation. The level 0 > would be out of the rotation for basically forever. > > Does this sound viable????? > > BTW...this is an inital implementation... > > Don > >
