Author: Sebastian Kösters <skoesters AT sino DOT de>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:24:26 +0200
Hi and thanks. My english is not so good so i have to ask again. When you say " You'll probably want runspercycle to match the dumpcycle, that will make sure you have 2 generations of backups before
Author: Sebastian Kösters <skoesters AT sino DOT de>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:53:10 +0200
Thanks! That helped me. I do the backup only weekdays so i set tapecycle to 14, runspercycle to 5 and dumpcycle to 7. Runtapes is set to 1. I use 300GB Vtapes....thats enough for my Backups. --Ursprü
Author: Chris Lee <cslee-list AT cybericom.co DOT uk>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:56:32 +0100
The simple answer is YES, or set it to less if you want more than 2 Generations in your 14 tapes. The explanation is: runspercycle is how many times will backups be run during dumpcycle. So it can be
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:49:11 -0400
Yes, and then just set it in the user amanda's crontab to run every night in the wee hours, while you're getting a good nights sleep. How are you installing amanda? From tarball, or some package mana
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:12:55 -0400
Are you saying that you have a 300GB drive for your vtapes, or that you will have 14 300GB drives? This will make a huge difference in the capacity you set the tapetype for. If its a single drive, th
OK, I'm confused. A typical amanda installation has a single config, not 8. Maybe a second one for special purposes, like off-site archives. But seldom (?never?) 8. What do you mean by a config? A ta
You can't have a config that is incremental only. An incremental backup is based on an earlier, higher level backup, going all the way back to level 0. Dumpcycle is used to tell amanda how often it s
Author: "McGraw, Robert P." <rmcgraw AT purdue DOT edu>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:33:42 -0400
[McGraw, Robert P.] I have two amanda config directories, daily and archive. The daily I run every day, except for the days that I run the archive, and the Archive I run the first Saturday of the mo