On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 at 10:03am, Steve Simeonidis wrote > 1/ > Some of the data we backup do not fit on a single tape > How do I handle that if we haven't got a changer?? > > 2/ > Usually we do full backups only. We have 7 tapes, 5 weekday and 2 > that are used as "weekly" tapes that are send to another location. > How can I configure that with amanda? I'm a bit confused > with dumpcycle-runspercycle-tapecycle-runtapes
If you'll look through the archives, you'll see this is a very common beginner's question. Typically, forcing amanda to do what you want doesn't work as well as letting it do what it wants -- it's good at it's job. As for your questions, if you have partitions that are bigger than a tape, you can split them up into multiple disklist entries if you specify GNUTAR as your dump program. You say you do full backups only, but some data sets are bigger than a tape -- how can you do weeklies then? In your situation, I'd do this: For your nightly backups, define a Daily configuration. dumpcycle 1 week, runspercycle 5, and tapecycle 10 (you'll need to buy more tapes -- having tapecycle=runspercycle is Bad, as one failed backup can mean you destroy your only backup of some systems). For the weeklies, dumpcycle 0, tapecycle 2 (or however many you need to fit all your data). Good luck. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
