Re: Avoiding incremental backups (how?)

None of these suggestions made a difference. The archival backup continues to do level 1 and 2 backups. Any other suggestions?

Thanks,
Cory

Jay Lessert <jayl AT accelerant DOT net>

10/31/2002 11:57 AM

To: Cory Visi <visi AT jones-mgt DOT com>
cc:
Subject: Re: Avoiding incremental backups (how?)

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 04:13:11AM -0500, Cory Visi wrote: > I have been trying to make an archival tape configuration for some time > now. I have tried numerous suggestions, but nothing seems to be effective > in stopping Amanda from doing incremental backups. I am using Amanda > 2.4.3b4. > The point of this configuration is to run once every 4 weeks and always do > a full backup to tape. There are two tapes in the rotation and one is > aways off-site. > > My amanda.conf: > > dumpcycle 0 > runspercycle 2
That doesn't make sense, use 'runspercycle 1' I think this is what is confusing amanda.
> tapecycle 2 tapes > > define dumptype comp-root-full { > record no > index yes > comment "Root partitions with compression" > compress client fast > priority low > skip-incr yes
That's not what you want. Set 'strategy noinc'
Here's the setup that works for me. (I run the tape once and keep it offsite forever, but I don't see why your 'tapecycle 2' shouldn't work.)
dumpcycle 0 days runspercycle 1 tapecycle 1 tapes
define dumptype always-full { comment "Full dump always, no compression, no record" program "DUMP" maxdumps 2 compress none index yes record no strategy noinc }

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