On Wednesday 17 March 2004 13:32, Frank Smith wrote: >--On Friday, March 21, 2003 13:13:06 -0500 Sergio Pereira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> I'm trying to setup amanda to backup 52 weeks with incremental >> daily and every week a full backup. My amanda.conf shows like: >> >> dumpcycle 7 >> runspercycle 5 >> tapecycle 55 tapes >> >> for sure I'm doing something wrong .. what is it? >> when I run amadmin to check the due date for each disk I get: >> >> Due in 367 day20040317104426s: backupserver:/etc >> Due in 361 days: backupserver:/var >> Due in 362 days: backupserver:/home >> >> question: how do I modify my amanda.conf to meet my 52 weeks >> configuration? > >To have a years worth of backups, you would need a tapecycle of >at least 5 * 52 = 260 tapes. > >Maybe you need two separate configs, one always-full running weekly >with a tapecycle of at least 52 tapes, and one running daily with >at least 5 tapes (using your runspercycle). > I'd modify that a bit, to a tapecycle of 10 tapes so you have 2 recent fulls on hand in the everyday runs.
Also, when using 2 configs, they should have seperate data dirs so they don't get confused. This means that the always-full run will need to be seperated by a day from any of the other configs normal runs, and you will have full backups in the daily schedule too. But cron can handle that without waking from a snooze. >Frank > >> thx all, >> >> sergio >> >> >> -- -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
