On Monday 02 June 2003 17:41, Paolo Supino wrote: >Hi > > I'm starting to look like a freaking RTFM kind of guy :( >Don't know how I keep missing the obvious (1st the manpage now this ><grin> > more (idiotic) questions: Do the global dumpcycle and the one >inside the backup type mean the same thing? If so do they have >to have the same entry? and then what should I put in the global >dumpcycle, runspercycle and tapecycle? > >"global"??? AFAIK, you set this stuff once, in amanda.conf, and yes its global. Thats the ONLY place its to be recorded and used that I'm aware of.
> >-----Original Message----- From: Jon LaBadie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 9:42 PM >To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' >Subject: Re: strategy > >On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 08:43:21PM +0300, Paolo Supino wrote: >> Hi >> >> Last week I installed amanda on a new network and in the >> configuration I gave it: strategy noinc. For some unkonwn >> reason amanda ignored the strategy and complained about >> not being able to complete incremental backups. Today I > >Doesn't that suggest it was not ignoring the strategy? >Sounds like it wanted to do incrementals but complained >it was not allowed to because of the strategy. Guessing here. > >> tried to put noinc in double quotes (" ") and I ran amcheck >> after saving the configuration. Amanda printed the following >> error: >> "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 259: STANDARD or NOFULL >> expected amcheck: errors processing config file >> "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf" Except for the fact that amanda >> didn't like the quotes, why does it complain that only STANDARD >> and NOFULL are expected? What about the other strategy options? > >Left over, unchanged message from when only the two strategies were >available? > >However, more reading would uncover in amanda.conf: > ># strategy - set the dump strategy. Valid strategies are > currently: # ... ># "noinc" - do level 0 dumps every time. ># Unfortunately, this is not currently >implemented. -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.