+----[ Ben Kochie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) dijo sobre "Re: 2 tape strategy": | | you also need to update the cron entries so that it only runs on the days | you want it to.. read the crontab man page, and run the apropriate crontab | command for your system. (i can't tell you any more, because you didn't | say what OS and version you're running) | | -ben
Yes! Thanks Ben ... I completely forgot about the cron job. However, now my question is: how does the interaction of cron job and dumpcycle/runspercycle work? What is the meaning of runspercycle in amanda.conf if the actual 'runs per cycle' are set through the cron job? i.e. if i set a dumpcycle of 7 days (meaning I want at least 1 level 0 dump of each fs per week) and runspercycle to 1, I would expect to have amanda run only once per week and do a full dump of every fs. However if my cron job is set to run amcheck + amdump every day, I suppose amanda will run daily (as it's happening now) and will try to dump daily to tape. (Why doesn't amanda skip some days, even if called from a cron job?). Fernan | | On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Fernan Aguero wrote: | | > Hi! | > | > I am running amanda-2.4.2p2 succesfully with 2 hosts (1 server, 1 | > client). All disklist entries (level 0 dump) fit well on a DDS-4 40GB | > using software compression (about 24 GB now). | > | > I have only 4 tapes in use and momentarily just 2 (I am keeping 2 of them as | > archival tapes as I am burning some of the data on CDs, and will | > return them to the tapecycle as soon as they get done). | > | > This is how I've set my conf file: | > | > dumpcycle 7 | > runspercycle 2 | > tapecycle 2 tapes | > | > Based on this I'd expected amanda to run just twice every 7 days. | > However, amanda still runs everyday. | > Is it possible to do this? (if i set a dumpcycle of 30 and | > runspercycle of 1, would amanda run just once per month?) | > | > I am currently forcing level 0 dumps in every run because otherwise | > amanda would almost always overwrite the only level 0 dump for a | > filesystem. | > | > Since all lev > 0 dumps are only a few megabytes (< 100 MB), is it | > possible to have amanda append these to the end of each tape, thus | > leaving the level 0 dumps untouched? | > | > Currently I have this problem because on weekends amanda would run | > without being forced to do a lev 0 dump and thus would leave things in | > the holding disk that need to be flushed on Monday. That day, I will | > be left with only 1 level 0 dump in tape for each filesystem. | > | > Thanks in advance, | > | > Fernan | > | > PS: I know that just getting more tapes would be the ideal solution, | > but that is not economically possible in the short term. I'll | > appreciate comments on how to make amanda run as tapewise as it can, | > given my shortage of tape media. | > | > -- | > | > | F e r n a n A g u e r o | B i o i n f o r m a t i c s | | > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | genoma.unsam.edu.ar | | > | | | +----] -- | F e r n a n A g u e r o | B i o i n f o r m a t i c s | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | genoma.unsam.edu.ar |
