On Monday 23 June 2003 13:44, lloyd wrote:
>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) in case
>someone has a corrupt file that went unnoticed since the last
> backup.
>
>what's the best way to do this?  can i change my current config
> somehow, or should i create an additional config that runs the full
> backups?
>
>thanks

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 
runspercycle of 7 days here, against a pool of 28 tapes,  DDS2's 
being dirt cheap.

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