Author: Debux <amanda-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:43:39 -0400
Hi, I want to help set up the Amanda backup for weekly full, incremental, in the other day and retensão of two weeks. I have 6 tapes LTO3. This is possible? My setup so far is this: dumpcycle 1 weeks
Author: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:15:24 -0400
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Debux <amanda-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> wrote: Your runspercycle has to be less than your tapecycle, so you'll either need more tapes or fewer runs. Dustin -- S
Author: Debux <amanda-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:48:51 -0400
Well, then so that I can run from Monday to Sunday without missing one day, I would have to include two more tapes and set up thus: dumpcycle 1 Weeks runspercycle 7 days tapecycle 8 Tapes runtapes 1
Author: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:32:10 -0400
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Debux <amanda-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> wrote: Yes. Amanda's retention policy is based exclusively on the tape cycle. Data is retained until the tape it is on i
Author: Chris Hoogendyk <hoogendyk AT bio.umass DOT edu>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:30:58 -0400
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Debux <amanda-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> wrote: correct? Yes. And how does the retention? In the next cycle (next week) will be overrid
Typically daily amdump runs and retaining 2 wks worth of data would require 15 tapes. Alternatives exist that could use fewer tapes. But as always that would require some limitations. One alternative
Author: Debux <amanda-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:04:01 -0400
So if I want one week of retension, I would have to use 15 tapes and change the value of tapecycle to 15 tapes, correct? The parameters below are correct? for 1 full backup per week, with last week i
Give a 1 wk dumpcycle (aka 7 days) how often during a single dumpcycle will you run a backup (aka amdump)? It does not take any units like "days". runspercycle 1 One dump per week runspercycle 5 Week