On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 02:02:55PM -0500, Jeremy L. Mordkoff wrote:
> 
> What I have found (that seems to work) is to set dumpcycle to 5 on
> Mondays and Tuesdays (so Amanda will look back far enough in time). Then
> I set it back to 3 days on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. This seems
> to have the exact desired affect. This morning's (Monday's) backups had
> level 0's for each system that had not gotten a level 0 last Thursday or
> Friday. 

Imaginative!  I hope it continues to work well for you.

Do you do the change by having a program run just before,
and part of the amdump entry in crontab?

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