On Monday 23 June 2003 13:44, lloyd wrote: >currently, i have a backup schedule that uses ten tapes over ten > days. however, i think this just provides one recent copy of a > given file. > >periodically, i'd like to create snapshots (full backups) in case >someone has a corrupt file that went unnoticed since the last > backup. > >what's the best way to do this? can i change my current config > somehow, or should i create an additional config that runs the full > backups? > >thanks
The best way is to add tapes to the tapecycle so that you have more than one generation of backups on hand. This has a minimal effect on amanda and its daily operations. I'm running a dumpcycle and runspercycle of 7 days here, against a pool of 28 tapes, DDS2's being dirt cheap. -- 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.
