"Carl D. Blake" <carl AT boeckeler DOT com> wrote:
 >I'm trying to setup an AMANDA backup system with the following
 >characteristics:
 >      Full backup every Wednesday on a different weekly tape
 >      Differential backup on Thurday, Friday, Monday, and Tuesday
 >      Full backup on the last Wednesday of each month which is then
 >              archived for a year.
 >
 >So far I've setup a Weekly configuration with runspercycle set to 0,
 >dumpcycle set to 0, and tapecycle set to 7.  record is set to yes so
 >that differentials run on a daily basis will have a date that the last
 >full backup was done on.
 >
 >I have a Monthly configuration with runspercycle set to 0, dumpcycle set
 >to 0, and tapecycle set to 14.  Again, record is set to yes for the sake
 >of the daily differentials.
 >
 >The Daily configuration is runspercycle set to 4, dumpcycle set to 1
 >weeks, and tapecycle set to 7.
 >
 >I have cron setup to run "amdump Daily" on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday,
 >and Friday; "amdump Weekly" on Wednesday for the first 3 (or 4) weeks of
 >the month; and "amdump Monthly" on the last Wednesday of the month.
 >
 >Does this sound like my configuration will do what I want?  Or do I have
 >something really messed up?  Any comments or suggestions would be
 >appreciated.

Comments or suggestions?  You are trying to swim upstream.

Tommy McGuire