Hi 

 I'm starting to look like a freaking RTFM kind of guy :(
Don't know how I keep missing the obvious (1st the manpage now this
<grin> 
 more (idiotic) questions: Do the global dumpcycle and the one 
inside the backup type mean the same thing? If so do they have
to have the same entry? and then what should I put in the global
dumpcycle, runspercycle and tapecycle? 





TIA 



        Paolo 


  

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon LaBadie [mailto:jon AT jgcomp DOT com]
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 9:42 PM
To: 'amanda-users AT amanda DOT org'
Subject: Re: strategy


On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 08:43:21PM +0300, Paolo Supino wrote:
> 
> Hi 
> 
>   Last week I installed amanda on a new network and in the 
> configuration I gave it: strategy noinc. For some unkonwn
> reason amanda ignored the strategy and complained about 
> not being able to complete incremental backups. Today I

Doesn't that suggest it was not ignoring the strategy?
Sounds like it wanted to do incrementals but complained
it was not allowed to because of the strategy.  Guessing here.

> tried to put noinc in double quotes (" ") and I ran amcheck
> after saving the configuration. Amanda printed the following 
> error: 
> "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 259: STANDARD or NOFULL expected
> amcheck: errors processing config file "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf"
> Except for the fact that amanda didn't like the quotes, why 
> does it complain that only STANDARD and NOFULL are expected? 
> What about the other strategy options? 

Left over, unchanged message from when only the two strategies were
available?

However, more reading would uncover in amanda.conf:

#   strategy    - set the dump strategy.  Valid strategies are currently:
# ...
#                 "noinc"    - do level 0 dumps every time.
#                              Unfortunately, this is not currently
implemented.

-- 
Jon H. LaBadie                  jon AT jgcomp DOT com
 JG Computing
 4455 Province Line Road        (609) 252-0159
 Princeton, NJ  08540-4322      (609) 683-7220 (fax)