On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 05:13, Nitesh Kumar A. wrote:
> 
> Hai:
> 
> I need some advice on this. I get confused with dumpcycles, etc.
> 
> I need one full backup on the 1st day of every month. And then from sunday
> to saturday through the entire month, I need to take incremental 
> backup. How do I take it? I mean incremental backup from the 1st day of
> every month to the last day of the month.

Why not just do a level 0 each time amanda runs? The below options in
your amanda.conf file will force amanda to do a full backup each time.
So on a restore, you only need one tape.

dumpcycle 0
runspercycle 1
tapecycle THE_NUMBER_OF_TAPES_THAT_YOU_HAVE