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Re: ideal dumpcicle

2004-03-17 15:54:51
Subject: Re: ideal dumpcicle
From: Andrew Hall <halla3 AT corp.earthlink DOT net>
To: Sergio Pereira <sergio AT ee.ryerson DOT ca>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:03:23 -0500
Sergio,

No.  Call amdump with an argument of the config.

Drew

On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 15:42, Sergio Pereira wrote:
> ok. but doesn't amanda get confuse with two configs?
> 
> sergio
> 
> On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 13:32, Frank Smith wrote:
> > --On Friday, March 21, 2003 13:13:06 -0500 Sergio Pereira <sergio AT 
> > ee.ryerson DOT ca> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi list,
> > > 
> > > I'm trying to setup amanda to backup 52 weeks with incremental daily and
> > > every week a full backup. My amanda.conf shows like:
> > > 
> > > dumpcycle 7
> > > runspercycle 5
> > > tapecycle 55 tapes
> > > 
> > > for sure I'm doing something wrong .. what is it?
> > > when I run amadmin to check the due date for each disk I get:
> > > 
> > > Due in 367 days: backupserver:/etc
> > > Due in 361 days: backupserver:/var
> > > Due in 362 days: backupserver:/home
> > > 
> > > question: how do I modify my amanda.conf to meet my 52 weeks
> > > configuration?
> > 
> > To have a years worth of backups, you would need a tapecycle of
> > at least 5 * 52 = 260 tapes.
> > 
> > Maybe you need two separate configs, one always-full running weekly
> > with a tapecycle of at least 52 tapes, and one running daily with
> > at least 5 tapes (using your runspercycle).
> > 
> > Frank
> > 
> > > 
> > > thx all,
> > > 
> > > sergio
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -- 


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