On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:41:56AM +0100, Kristian Rink wrote:
> 
> Hi all,...
> 
> Since people around here still are stuck wanting to have a
> "friday-full/rest-of-the-week-incremental" backup strategy, I read
> through
> 
...
> created two amanda configurations with the same disklist for full
> and for incremental backup, labeled my tapes and tested the whole
> mess. About the full backup, things work pretty fine. However,
> trying to run the incremental setup always leaves me with an error
> mail such as below:
> 

Just a possibility for an alternative arrangement.  I'd hate
having to maintain two nearly identical configs for a single
disklist.

What about a single config.  Set it up with a long dumpcycle.
Use dumptypes that specify "always incremental", or "no-full",
or "strategy incr" or ???  I.e. something that reduces the
possibility of full dumps.

Then set things up to "force" full dumps on Fridays.  Use
amadmin commands for this.  The force could be done with a
separate cron job that runs Fridays before the amdump job
or by replacing the amdump command with a shell script
that says "if it is friday, first do an amadmin force".

A fancier script could check if is anyother day, was a
full dump done more recently than last Thursday, if not
do the force.  This could handle the situation where the
friday dumps were not done but you shouldn't wait for
two weeks for the next full dumps.


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