I want to (once a month) do a backup of all disks. My tapes are not
large enough to fit the whole thing, so I need to spread it across 3
tapes or so. I was thinking of setting up a 1-day dumpcycle with 3
runspercycle and just do all three dumps on a saturday. I don't think
this is the best way
What can I do if I want to, once every two months, rotate a tapeset offsite? I
run 14 tapes per cycle (2 weeks) and don't want to mail stuff every
two weeks, but wouldn't mind every two months. Is there a way to do
this other than having two different conf's? If I have to use two
confs, can I
OK, the server that runs the amanda stuff is what gets backed up. I
added another host to the list, flare:/etc. It seems to backup fine;
I get a size and time and everything in the email reports. When I run
amrecover, I can sethost and setdisk, but there is no index records
for the host on any
I have installed libtool, but I still get an error that 'ar' cannot be
found. Can someone help me with this?
--Dan
OK, right now, I do a full backup every night. That's obviously not going
to work forever ;). How can I run a full backup once a week and
incrementals every day?
Right now, my dumpcycle is set at 0 for everything. That makes it do a full
backup every night, right? So, what do I need to set
I want to know what happens if the backup server (where the index
files are stored) crashes. Is there a way for amanda to re-index a
tape? Do I need to be duplicating all the amanda stuff elsewhere as a
backup?
--Dan
I am pretty new to Amanda, so this question might be stupid.
I have a single-tape SCSI unit (DDS-2). I want to be able to backup
more than ~5GB per run. Is there not a way to get Amanda to somehow
stop at the end of a tape, email a request for another tape, and then
continue when the tape has
