I do
an archival run once a month. I have a separate config called "Archive." It's
identical to my DailySet config, except it gets run once a month. What I do to
make it run full backup is just issue an "amadmin" command using the force
option to make each client do a full backup.
I
issue the amadmin command by hand, but it would be easy to put it into a cron
script. In fact it would be easy to put the amadmin followed by the amdump, and
include error checking, into a cron script.
Example amadmin command:
amadmin Archives force <amanda client hostname>
Michael Martinez -----Original Message----- From: Cory Visi
[mailto:visi AT jones-mgt DOT com] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 3:38
AM To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org Subject: 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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Please send a summary back to
the list when you fix the
problem.
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