In a message dated: Tue, 04 May 2004 05:43:42 EDT Gene Heskett said: >But, some have setup two configurations, one that runs weekly and is >forced to do fulls on everything in the disklist, and one that runs >during the week that does the incrementals. I do not do that here, >so I'l let someone that is doing that explain it better than I can.
It's rather simplistic actually. I have 3 configurations: daily - runs Mon-Fri, rotates through 12 tapes which remain in the changer at all times. - this is a normal amanda config, running level 0s every so often and incrementals in between. weekly - runs each Saturday, uses the last 4 slots of the changer - forces a full dump every time - tapes get rotated out to be stored off-site. archival - runs once per quarter - is basically the identical as the weekly with no upper bound on the tapes - tapes get stored off-site indefinitely and never come back (or, at some later date, will be determined to be re-usable) Hope that's helpful to someone. -- Seeya, Paul GPG Key fingerprint = 1660 FECC 5D21 D286 F853 E808 BB07 9239 53F1 28EE If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right!