Re: fixed day backup

2003-03-17 Thread Chris Dahn
On Thursday 13 March 2003 04:36 pm, Wayne Richards wrote: > Well, there are a couple of options I can think of off the top of my head. > > 1. Use a second config file for the weekend backups and add the line: > strategy noinc > in the dumptype definition > > 2. Do a: > amadmin con

Re: fixed day backup

2003-03-14 Thread Bao Ho
soon as I get back to the office. Maybe because I was using all of your suggested methods at the same time that caused the problem :) -Original Message- From: David Olbersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: bao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; amanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, M

RE: fixed day backup

2003-03-13 Thread David Olbersen
Bao, I don't know why the FAQ says that -- it's simply not true! We currently have a setup similar to this: incremental every day and full backups every other weekend. The trick is to make 2 amanda configurations (say, 'Daily' and 'Archive'). Once you've got that you can just call amanda with

Re: fixed day backup

2003-03-13 Thread Wayne Richards
Well, there are a couple of options I can think of off the top of my head. 1. Use a second config file for the weekend backups and add the line: strategy noinc in the dumptype definition 2. Do a: amadmin config force hostname prior to running the weekly backups. Wayne