Hi list,

I did some thinking last night and here is my conclusion:

wouldn't be easier to have all the 52 weeks backed up using level 0
instead of having two configurations (daily+monthly)?

I mean, the total of space utilized will be the same at the end.
I can setup amanda to look for the vtapes in /amandatapes/daily and the
structure will be something like this:

/amandatapes/
           daily/
                slot1 -->/sda1/slot1
                slot2 -->/sda1/slot2
                slot3 -->/sda1/slot3
                 ...
                 ...
                slotN -->/sdn/slotn


Using symbolic links to the slots I can grow my vtape as I need and I
can spread different slots in different locations (multiple firewire
disks for example)

Do you think amanda can handle this kind of approach?

thx


sergio




On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 08:39, Kurt Yoder wrote:
> Jon LaBadie said:
> > Because it would be a different configuration, the config name,
> > the config logs and directories, and the tapes and tape labels
> > would be different.  If you want to recover from the monthly
> > config you use that name.  Otherwise use the daily config name.
> >
> > Both would have level 0 dumps, the monthly would have only
> > level 0 while the daily would have a mixture of level 0 and
> > incrementals.
> >
> > The monthly archive config doesn't care when the last level 0
> > was done so there is no need to record that it did a level 0.
> > Thus, set the "record" parameter to "no".  Otherwise the
> > daily config might get confused as to when "it" did the last
> > level 0.
> 
> I do a mix of Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and Yearly sets. I have it set up to do
> a mix of incrementals and level 0's on all of them. Amanda gets a *little*
> confused sometimes by this setup because it sometimes thinks a weekly or
> monthly has been missed and thus promotes a few too many DLE's to full dumps.
> In general it works fine though.
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