Thanks for your reply. If I go according to your examples I need 2 config files. When do you do your weekly backup?
Is the Daily backup only incremental?? I thought (may be I'm wrong) it does full backup autotically depending on the dumpcycle size. I can't find anything on the changer-device script anywhere, where can I place that script, where do I call it from. Thanks again On Thursday 31 October 2002 17:53, jordivi wrote: > Hi > > 1.- If a single dump image (one disc partition) is longer than a tape, > amanda can't handle this. If multiple dump images dont fit in a tape > you can setup a "changer-device=manual" which will be a script you can > write to send an email, a terminal prompt, windows popup, sing a song or > whatever to notify that the operator has to replace the tape. I have not > used it so I can be wrong. > > 2.- We do so also. We have one config for Daily tapes and other > for Weekly/offsite/fulldumps. > > In your case: > Daily -> > dumpcycle 1 week > runspercycle 5 (monday to friday) > runtapes 1 (If you use 1 tape each day) > tapecycle 6 (Or more. You at least need 1 tape extra to not destroy the > first valid tape in the cycle in the event of a hardware faillure during > the run) > > If you need, say 2 tapes a day, then runtapes=2, tapecycle=12 > > Weekly -> > dumpcycle 0 (full dumps) > runspercycle 1 > runtapes 1 (If your weekly dumps fits in 1 tape) > tapecycle 2 (1 in site, 1 offsite. Or more) > record no > > If you need, say 3 tapes for the weekly backup, then runtapes=3, > tapecycle=6 > > (list, please let me know if I'm wrong!) > > Jordi > > >On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:03:39 0500 Steve Simeonidis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote. > I need to install a backup software on a few servers > and I was told that amanda is really good. > > What I'm not sure about: > > 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 > > Thanks > > Steve
