RE: two schedules simultaneously?

We're doing it for off-site backup purposes.

I've gotten a lot of input on this, thanks all who responded. My questions
have been answered.

Wayne

p.s. not to say I won't ask more sometime in the future! :)


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
[mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org]On Behalf Of Bort, Paul
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 9:57 AM
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: RE: two schedules simultaneously?


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
>