1) Yes, you can run two schedules, just don't send requests from both at the
same time. AMANDA clients assume that they are only talking to one server at
a time. `cp -r /amanda/Config1/* /amanda/Config2/` or so.

2) FAQ-O-Matic, flaky but informative:
http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/28.html

3) You might not want to do this, depending on WHY you think you should do
it:
        - If you're building a second set of tapes to go off site, then a
second configuration is probably the right way to go. 
        - If you are doing this because AMANDA is only doing full backups
every three weeks, you could just reduce dumpcycle to 5 and get full backups
every week. 
        - If you don't like AMANDA spreading full backups over all the tapes
to reduce your loss in case of a media failure, then there are a variety of
commercial backup packages that haven't figured this out yet. Or a force
command noted in the above FOM.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wayne Byarlay [mailto:wab AT purdue DOT edu]
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 10:02 AM
> To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> Subject: two schedules simultaneously?
> 
> 
> Greetings.
> 
> I currently run Amanda with a 15-day dump cycle, Mon-Fri, called
> "DailySet1".
> 
> I want to know if it's possible to do the following:
> 
> 1. Make DailySet1 only run Mon-Thur;
> 2. Create a "WeeklySet1", with a 5-tape rotation, scheduled 
> for Fridays,
> doing a level 0 on all filesystems.
> 
> I was reading the book and it says you can do full archival dumps by
> "creating a new AMANDA configuration with its own set of 
> tapes". This sounds
> similar to what I want to do but not exactly. Does this mean 
> create a whole
> 'nother instance of AMANDA in some other directory(my guess), 
> or just create
> the "WeeklySet1" file? The way it sounds, one instance of a 
> total AMANDA
> configuration can only use one schedule set.
> 
> any other thoughts on this, too, are indeed welcome.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Wayne Byarlay
> Purdue University Libraries
>