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Re: amanda daily and monthly crontab -e entries

2005-04-20 07:38:21
Subject: Re: amanda daily and monthly crontab -e entries
From: Chuck Amadi <chuck AT smtl.co DOT uk>
To: Amanda List <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:31:12 +0100
Hi again

I have change the order of the crontab to amcheck then amdump .

Cheers

Chuck

On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 12:16 +0100, Chuck Amadi wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> For my daily and monthly backups for the crontab -e I have my test up
> and running just want a bit of advise as some mail list suggest running
> amcheck a few hours before amdump to give the admin possibilities to
> correct any issues.
> 
> Also I anticipate that my config-name <DailySet1> which I will change to
> the Organisation name after testing /local/sw/amanda/DailySet1 I created
> and label 5 tapes as follows for monday to friday.
> 
> su amanda -c "/local/sw/amanda/sbin/amlabel DailySet1 DailySet100"
> su amanda -c "/local/sw/amanda/sbin/amlabel DailySet1 DailySet101"
> su amanda -c "/local/sw/amanda/sbin/amlabel DailySet1 DailySet102"
> su amanda -c "/local/sw/amanda/sbin/amlabel DailySet1 DailySet103"
> su amanda -c "/local/sw/amanda/sbin/amlabel DailySet1 DailySet104"
> 
> Thus likewise for my MonthlySet1 which I have edited the amanda.conf
> org parameter and labelstr to suit MonthlySet.
> 
> # Backup daily dumps
> 
> 5 2 * * 1,2,3,4,5 su amanda -c /local/sw/amanda/bckup/sbin/amdump
> DailySet1
> 
> 0 16 * * 1,2,3,4,5 su -c /local/sw/amanda/bckup/sbin/amcheck DailySet1
> 
> # Backup monthly full dumps for archives on the 2nd day of each
> and every month of the year at 6.30am.
> 
> 30 6 2 1-12 * su amanda -c /local/sw/amanda/bckup/sbin/amdump
> MonthlySet1
> 
> # Backup check running amcheck at 4.30pm on the 2nd day of each and
> every month.
> 30 16 2 1-12 * su amanda -c /local/sw/amanda/bckup/sbin/amcheck
> MonthlySet1
> 
> Is this the right path for Daily backups and Monthly full backups that I
> will pull out for archiving.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
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