On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 10:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > "Carl D. Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >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. > > Comments or suggestions? You are trying to swim upstream. > > Tommy McGuire Could you explain what you mean by this? What is a better way to handle this? I would prefer to use amanda the way it was meant to be used rather than try to force her into some peculiar mode. -- Carl D. Blake Director of Engineering Boeckeler Instruments, Inc. 4650 S. Butterfield Dr. Tucson, AZ 85714
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