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Re: Configuration help?

2002-08-14 10:06:04
Subject: Re: Configuration help?
From: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
To: Conny Gyllendahl <conny AT consilia.aland DOT fi>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 09:43:59 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 at 4:27pm, Conny Gyllendahl wrote

> What I would like to do is:
> 
> - full backups every weekday (mon-fri)
> - use 5 tapes (possibly 6)
> - backup the following filesystems
> 
> host: louie filesys: /export/home/htdocs
> host: louie filesys: /export/home/htdocs-utv
> host: bagheera (win2k server) \\bagheera\misc

You need a *nix client with the samba client bits installed in order to 
get the 'doze box.  The disklist entry would look like:

$UNIX_HOST      //bagheera/misc         $DUMPTYPE_USING_TAR

> Or maybe I could have
>       dumpcycle 1 day
>       runspercycle 1
>       tapecycle 5
> and use cron to schedule it on weekdays only?

Close.  Set dumpcycle to 0 -- that will force all level 0s.  And, yes, use 
cron to run amdump on weekdays only.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University


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