Has anyone example of amanda implement the infinite grandfather-father-son strategy. Cheers Chuck -- Unix/ Linux Systems Administrator The Surgical Material Testing Laboratory (SMTL), Princess of Wal
Author: Martin Hepworth <martinh AT solid-state-logic DOT com>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 11:40:10 +0100
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 separa
Author: Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 13:30:04 +0200
No, you're not. Have you done that? And do you have a reason why not to follow the amanda-planner? -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Tel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax
Hi Yes I have but before I run my first test I would like confirmation that my amanda.conf handle incremental monday to thursday and a full backup on a friday and I will pull out the last friday of t
Author: Martin Hepworth <martinh AT solid-state-logic DOT com>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 12:32:32 +0100
Chuck err ... no amanda's planner will decide when to do the full dumps, based on how big/how long the dumps take. if you want a definite archive set you need a separate config that just has a zero d
Author: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <monitor AT oops.co DOT at>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:33:31 +0200
Hi, Chuck, on Mittwoch, 13. April 2005 at 12:30 you wrote to amanda-users: This is what we call the friday-tape-question: http://www.amanda.org/docs/topten.html#id2519662 -- best regards, Stefan Stef
You may have read, but not understood. Normally amanda MIXES full dumps and incrementals on each amdump run. Its design tries to avoid the monster dump on friday by balancing each days' dump with a m
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 tap
Author: Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 17:12:49 +0200
I now got it. almost :-) 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 t
Great I use the following for a So called Friday-Tape-Question. dumpcycle 5 runspercycle 5 tapecycle 25 maxdumps 1 Cheers -- Unix/ Linux Systems Administrator The Surgical Material Testing Laboratory