--On Thursday, March 11, 2004 11:46:16 -0500 Sergio Pereira <sergio AT 
ee.ryerson DOT ca> wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> 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 
> tpchanger "chg-disk"
> tapedev "file:/amandavtapes" (this is a entire disk)

I'm assuming you mean to retrieve a file deleted a year ago, and not a
file deleted yesterday that's been there for a year.

Your current setup will only let you go back one week.  To go
back a year with this setup you would need at least 260 'tapes'
Tapes = (365/dumpcycle)*runspercycle*runtapes

It would probably be more practical to set up a second, 'archive'
config to run at some interval (monthly, biweekly, weekly; whatever
period your normal config tapecycle covers) that only does full backups
with a tapecycle that could cover a year.

Frank

> 
> 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
> 
> thx,
> 
> 
> Sergio



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