Sergio Pereira wrote:
I'm starting to play win amanda (2.4.4p2) on rh9 and using external hard
disk as virtual tapes. I was wondering how do I setup amanda to be able
to retrieve a 1 year old file? in other words, I want to have 1 year bkp
with level 0 weekly. If someone has any other idea .. pls share.:-)
here's my relevant configuration on amanda.conf:
dumpcycle 7
daysrunspercycle 5
tapecycle 6 tapes
runtapes 1
If you have 6 tapes, and run amdump 5 times over a dumpcycle of 7 days,
then your oldest backup will be only 1 week + 2 days old.
(and "daysrunspercycle" is a syntax error, but I guess that's a typo)
You'll need 5 * 52 = 260 tapes to span a year with the above frequency.
Alternatively, you make 1 backup, all full, then wait a complete year,
and you'll be able to restore a 1 year old file from only 1 tape.
Or did I completely misunderstand what you playing with?
tpchanger "chg-disk"
tapedev "file:/amandavtapes" (this is a entire disk)
my virtual tapes are: (amtape daily show)
slot 2: date 20040311 label daily2
slot 3: date 20040311 label daily3
slot 4: date 20040311 label daily4
slot 5: date 20040311 label daily5
slot 6: date 20040310 label daily6
slot 1: date 20040311 label daily1
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