I'm trying to setup an AMANDA backup system with the following characteristics: Full backup every Wednesday on a different weekly tape Differential backup on Thurday, Friday, Monday, and Tuesday Full backup on the last Wednesday of each month which is then archived for a year.
So far I've setup a Weekly configuration with runspercycle set to 0, dumpcycle set to 0, and tapecycle set to 7. record is set to yes so that differentials run on a daily basis will have a date that the last full backup was done on. I have a Monthly configuration with runspercycle set to 0, dumpcycle set to 0, and tapecycle set to 14. Again, record is set to yes for the sake of the daily differentials. The Daily configuration is runspercycle set to 4, dumpcycle set to 1 weeks, and tapecycle set to 7. I have cron setup to run "amdump Daily" on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday; "amdump Weekly" on Wednesday for the first 3 (or 4) weeks of the month; and "amdump Monthly" on the last Wednesday of the month. Does this sound like my configuration will do what I want? Or do I have something really messed up? Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated. -- Carl D. Blake Director of Engineering Boeckeler Instruments, Inc. 4650 S. Butterfield Dr. Tucson, AZ 85714 Phone: 520-745-0001 FAX: 520-745-0004 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com