--On Wednesday, November 03, 2004 14:44:55 -0600 Erik Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings - I'm just starting to get Amanda set up. I have a 5-tape > DLT7000 changer. I've been going back and forth about how to > structure my backup policies. > > The amount of data that will be being backed up is around 10 gigs. > The DLTIV tapes I'm using should hold around 30 gigs, according to > amtapetype. I have a ton of tapes to work with - approximately 80 > tapes. Because of the relatively small amount of data I'm working > with and the large number of tapes, I figure that I might as well do a > full backup every night. Would this make sense? It wil make restores simpler. The only reason I can think of to consider not doing it would be if you had a very short backup window or very slow network link between clients and server. Otherwise I'd go for the fulls every day. > > That's my first question. My second question is how to implement this > in my amanda.conf. I believe the following should be correct, but I > wanted to run it by the list to see if there are any improvements: > > ... > dumpcycle 1 day > runspercycle 1 day runspercycle has no units, it just the number of runs per dumpcycle, so just make it 1. > tapecycle 28 days > ... > > If I'm thinking correctly, this will force Amanda to do a full backup > every night, and I'll have 28 days worth of full backups in the cycle. > Correct? To make doubly sure, you could define allways-full in your dumptype. Frank > > Any suggestions? Thanks! -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
