Hi There, I plan to change amanda backup schedule due to reduction of the size of the working group. Currently dumpcycle=6Days; runspercycle=3 (runs every other day), using 4 tapes (on disk). I just want to change dumpcycle to one month. Here is the list of changes I think I should do.
1. amanda.conf dumpcycle 30 days runspercycle 15 tapecycle 16 # (15+1) ### Do I need to change this? The backup disk has 200G, that's why the length was set to 48G (200/4). If I change it to 12G (200/16), it's not enough to hold a full dump. Since this is vertual tape, I can probably set to 30G and hope there will be no more than 6 full dump per cycle. define tapetype HARD-DISK { comment "Backup to disk - not tape" length 48000 mbytes } 2. chg-multi (tapechanger) firstslot 1 lastslot 16 slot 1file:/xxx ... slot 16 file: /xxx 3. Add tape directories T5-T16 on backup disk. 4. cron xxx My questions are: 1. Do I miss anything I should change? 2. When will this change take effect? 3. Will amanda do this transition seamlessly? Thanks in advance. Jingchun