On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 11:59, Jay Lessert wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:29:08AM -0700, Carl D. Blake wrote: > [clip] > > this kind of arrangement you can restore within a day for the previous > > week, within a week for the previous month, and within a month for the > > previous year. > > Carl, > > If this is your goal, and you want to use Amanda, I would suggest > this: > > config "daily", run 5X/week: > - dumpcycle 7 days > - runspercycle 5 > - tapecycle 25 > - index yes > - record yes > - strategy normal > > config "monthly", run 1X/month > - dumpcycle 0 > - runspercycle 1 > - tapecycle 12 > - index yes > - record no > - strategy noinc > > This gets you within a day for 5 weeks, and within a month for 1 year, > using 37 tapes. It will "just work", with very little effort on your > part, because there are Amanda users all over the world doing something > *very* close this. > > Note that I've freely mixed dumptype and non-dumptype parameters here > for brevity, you'll be more careful, of course. :-) > > Once you get over the extra tapes (hey, 37 > 20, but << 80!) and get > used to the idea that Amanda will do your daily fulls when *she* wants > (not when you want), you'll like it. Trust me. :-) > This doesn't sound too bad. My only question is how would I run the monthly config. Would I just pick a day in the month on which I would run "amdump monthly" instead of "amdump daily"? If so, would that cause the daily dumps to get offset by one day? Does this even matter?
Thanks for your help. -- 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