Hi agian I now got it.
My Friday tapes i.e weeklySets their amanda.conf will have level 0 and thus I just pull out the last Friday of the month for archiving. and run amlabel to create the pulled tape. dumpcycle 5 # 4/5 Friday tapes last tape to be pulled. runspercycle 5 # 4 tapes for mon to thurs in rotation tapecycle 14 # one tape for errors and one for cleaning before being overwritten. maxdumps 1 My Mon to Thursday dailysets will have their unqiue amanda.conf file dumpcycle 5 runspercycle 4 # 4 tapes for mon to thurs. tapecycle 6 # tape for errors and one for cleaning Im getting there. Cheers Chuck .On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 11:40 +0100, Martin Hepworth wrote: > Chuck > > Amanda does it's own cycling of full and incremental backups, tying to > get an even backup size/time over the tape sets. > > If you want to do 'permanent archive' sets (we do) then you need a > separate config that only does level 0 backups and has the tapes marked > as don't reuse. > > Have a read of the documentation and esp how the planner handles > incrementals/full backups. > > -- > Martin Hepworth > Snr Systems Administrator > Solid State Logic > Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 > > > Chuck Amadi wrote: > > Has anyone example of amanda implement the infinite > > grandfather-father-son strategy. > > > > Cheers > > > > Chuck > > ********************************************************************** > > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they > are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify > the system manager. > > This footnote confirms that this email message has been swept > for the presence of computer viruses and is believed to be clean. > > ********************************************************************** > -- Unix/ Linux Systems Administrator The Surgical Material Testing Laboratory (SMTL), Princess of Wales Hospital Coity Road Bridgend, United Kingdom, CF31 1RQ. Tel: +44 1656 752820 Fax: +44 1656 752830