Hi,
let's clarify this a bit:
the dumptype called "global" is a dumptype like any other in amanda.conf.
if you want the entrys in this dumptype in another dumptype, you'll have to

self made dumptype.
This line should be the first one in your new dumptype.
If you want to override a single option of your global section the override
definition has to be behind the include-line.
The last occurence of an option in a dumptype gives the used value.

Christoph

Paul Bijnens schrieb:

Paolo Supino wrote:

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?

The global dumpcycle can be overruled for some specific dumptypes.
So that you can have e.g. a global dumpcycle of 7 days, but a few
important DLE's can specify a dumpcycle 0 (= full backups allways).
Runspercycle and tapecycle can only be global.