Author: lloyd <subscr002 AT twilight-systems DOT com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:44:47 -0400
currently, i have a backup schedule that uses ten tapes over ten days. however, i think this just provides one recent copy of a given file. periodically, i'd like to create snapshots (full backups) i
Author: Brian Cuttler <brian AT wadsworth DOT org>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:54:04 -0400 (EDT)
Lloyd, (Assuming dump utility), Amanda will schedule a level 0 every (at most) dump cycle if not more frequently. When the dump level is advances, to say level 1, if the user file is modified it will
Author: lloyd <subscr002 AT twilight-systems DOT com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 14:10:58 -0400
Brian Cuttler wrote: You have a tape cycle of 10, what is your dump cycle ? Certain less than 10, hopefully less than 5. 5 given one untouched copy of the your level 0 backup while the older level 0
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 14:16:03 -0400
The best way is to add tapes to the tapecycle so that you have more than one generation of backups on hand. This has a minimal effect on amanda and its daily operations. I'm running a dumpcycle and r
Clone your daily config but use 'dumpcycle 0' to force full dumps on everything, 'record no' so as not to clobber the dumpdates on your daily runs, and a different log/index directory and tape labels
Author: "Ean Kingston" <ean_kingston AT kanetix DOT com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 14:35:25 -0400
It sounds to me like what you want to do is make a new amanda configuration which you run once a week and have it take full backups only. You would then need enough tapes to do say 12 full backups. T
Author: Brian Cuttler <brian AT wadsworth DOT org>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 14:42:17 -0400 (EDT)
Lloyd, Highly recommended that you have at least 2x times the number of runs as dump cycle, else you run the risk of overwriting the only level 0 of any particular partition. Can you run dumpcycle of