On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 10:19:16AM +0100, Chuck Amadi wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> Has anyone got examples of a daily backup configuration
> and archive configuration for last Friday of the month.
> 
> I am going to use 5 tapes for monday to friday that I will reuse.
> Thus do a full backup every day.
> 
> dumpcycle 0 weeks
> 
> runspercycle 1
> 
> tapecycle 8 # two for errors and one for cleaning cartridge

This part of amanda doesn't want to know about cleaning tapes.
Only tapes it will write to.

> 
> For monthlys Full dump:
> 
> dumpcycle 1           # the number of days in the normal dump cycle
>                       # (full backup at start of month, automatically)
> runspercycle 0          # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days
>                       # (0 means identical to dumpcycle)

I don't understand why you use 0,1 above and 1,0 here.
Probably 0,1 is appropriate for both.


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