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Alternating dump cycles for offsite storage

2005-11-30 20:21:26
Subject: Alternating dump cycles for offsite storage
From: C Shore <alemc.2 AT bmts DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:05:03 -0500
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Hi,

I'm wondering if amanda can handle having two different configurations
which are used on alternating two week periods.  I know I could set up
DailySet1 and DailySet2 and a crontab that ran DailySet1 for the first
two weeks of the month and DailySet2 for the next two, but I'm not how
well amanda will deal with the two week gap between dumps.

The reason I want to do this is that I want to have offsite storage in
which I deposit one tapecyle's worth of tapes, and pull out the other
tapecylce's tapes.  (The dumpcycle would end up being 13 days because
the tapecycle must be greater than the dumpcycle).

Would this horribly confuse amanda, or is there a way to do this.  A
more difficult (and problematic for weekends since offsite is only
available during the week) approach (because of logistics) would be
alternating days, dropping off the set1 tape and picking up the set2
tape on a given day.  Actually the dumps seems to be taking about 22
hours which is another problem for this approach.  I'm hoping the time
is reduced when I upgrade and divide out the server's tasks.

Any helpful hints, suggestions, documentation I could read?

Thanks,

Daniel
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