The last item on each line of the disklist specifies the dump type to use for the filesystem. These dump types are defined in amanda.conf. Have a look at the comments in amanda.conf to see all the options. The format for the disklist is:
<host> <filesystem> <dump type>
So, to backup the /home/users filesystem on 'myhost', using 'nocomp-user' you would use:
myhost /home/users nocomp-user
as the entry in the disklist.
'nocomp-user' does not have the line:
dumpcycle 0
'dumpcycle' within a dump type definition tells amanda the maximum number of days between full dumps of the filesystem. A value of zero causes a full backup of the filesystem to be performed every time.
You could, for example, modify 'nocomp-user' to read as follows and leave your disklist as it is:
define dumptype nocomp-user { comp-user comment "Non-root partitions on slow machines" index program "GNUTAR" compress none
dumpcycle 0 # <----- force full backups
}
Angie Yee wrote:
What's mean by "nocomp-user" in disklist then? Please advise. Thanks. BR, Angie ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Thorne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Angie Yee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 1:50 PM Subject: Re: Backup problemFrom my understanding, you should be able to do something like the following: fs3 /vol0 always-full fs3 /vol1 always-full The dump type 'always-full' is defined in your amanda.conf already:define dumptype always-full { global comment "Full dump of this filesystem always" compress none priority high dumpcycle 0 }The 'dumpcycle 0' line tells amanda to always do a full dump of the filesystem. This dump type does not use compression. We have a new dump type here which uses compression and does a full dump, defined as follows in amanda.conf: define dumptype high-tar-full { high-tar comment "high priority, full dump with compression" compress client fast priority high dumpcycle 0 } This makes use of 'high-tar', also in your amanda.conf already. You ould then put this in your disklist: fs3 /vol0 high-tar-full fs3 /vol1 high-tar-full You will need gzip and tar installed on your machines. James. Angie Yee wrote:Hi James, Thanks for your prompt reply. The dumptypes are : fs3 /vol0 nocomp-user fs3 /vol1 nocomp-user Would you please advise how to force amanda to do the full back-up every night? Thanks. BR, Angie