I have been trying to make an archival tape configuration for some time now. I have tried numerous suggestions, but nothing seems to be effective in stopping Amanda from doing incremental backups. I am using Amanda 2.4.3b4.
The point of this configuration is to run once every 4 weeks and always do a full backup to tape. There are two tapes in the rotation and one is aways off-site.
My amanda.conf:
dumpcycle 0
runspercycle 2
tapecycle 2 tapes
define dumptype comp-root-full {
record no
index yes
comment "Root partitions with compression"
compress client fast
priority low
skip-incr yes
}
define dumptype comp-user-full {
record no
index yes
comment "Non-root partitions on reasonably fast machines"
compress client fast
priority medium
skip-incr yes
}
define dumptype comp-user-full-gnutar {
record no
index yes
program "GNUTAR"
comment "user partitions dumped with tar and compression"
compress server fast
maxdumps 4
exclude "./RECYCLER"
skip-incr yes
}
My disklist:
server02.ct sda1 comp-root-full 1
server02.ct sda2 comp-user-full 1
server02.ct sdd1 comp-user-full 2
server02.ct //SERVER01/BACKUP-C comp-user-full-gnutar
server02.ct //SERVER01/BACKUP-E comp-user-full-gnutar
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Thanks,
Cory Visi
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