Hi Yes I have but before I run my first test I would like confirmation
that my amanda.conf handle incremental monday to thursday and a full
backup on a friday and I will pull out the last friday of that month.

dumpcycle 1 week # Incremental weekday mon-thurs dump only 
runpercycle 5 # Friday Full dump and thus I will pull out for
archives(12 tapes).

tapecycle 25 # Number of tapes in circulation to be overwritten.
# NB 3 tapes for error/ampflush and one tape for cleaning purposes.

Am I on the right track.

Cheers

Chuck
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 11:40 +0100, Martin Hepworth wrote:
> Chuck
> 
> Amanda does it's own cycling of full and incremental backups, tying to 
> get an even backup size/time over the tape sets.
> 
> If you want to do 'permanent archive' sets (we do) then you need a 
> separate config  that only does level 0 backups and has the tapes marked 
> as don't reuse.
> 
> Have a read of the documentation and esp how the planner handles 
> incrementals/full backups.
> 
> --
> Martin Hepworth
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
> 
> 
> Chuck Amadi wrote:
> > Has anyone example of amanda implement the infinite
> > grandfather-father-son strategy.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Chuck
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