On Wednesday 17 March 2004 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 day20040317104426s: 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).
>
I'd modify that a bit, to a tapecycle of 10 tapes so you have 2 recent 
fulls on hand in the everyday runs.

Also, when using 2 configs, they should have seperate data dirs so 
they don't get confused.  This means that the always-full run will 
need to be seperated by a day from any of the other configs normal 
runs, and you will have full backups in the daily schedule too.  But 
cron can handle that without waking from a snooze.

>Frank
>
>> thx all,
>>
>> sergio
>>
>>
>> --

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