On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 12:11, Frank Smith wrote:
> --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
> 

hmmm .. not goot at all. To maintain all the 260 'tapes' and all the
space required will be hard.

> 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.

you mean setup another configuration the way it can do a monthly backup.
that way I will have 1 config for 'daily' and another for 'mothtly', did
I get it right?
In this case, how will work when recovering a file/folder? 
just to clarify, I'm just trying to find the best way to have 1 yr of
backup. 

> 
> 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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