Hi David, Jay, and Wayne,

Thanks for replying.

I had tried the options "strategy noinc" and "strategy nofull" as Jay has
mentioned. In fact,
we can get away with only one config with two dumptypes and have to call the
correct one on the
correct day with cron. We just override the dumpcycle options in the
dumptypes.

It works so far, but there was the Mail drive from another machine, which I
use smb
to mount to the backup server, that almost always has a full backup, no
matter if it
is called with the incremental dumptype or the full dumptype. Its contents
changes
constantly, but I don't think that's the reason why it should be fully
backed up.

I also tried two separate configs, in combination with the two options
mentioned above.

I also used amadmin to force a level 0 backup right before the full is
performed.

I will try with "record no" as soon as I get back to the office.

Maybe because I was using all of your suggested methods at the same time
that
caused the problem :)


-----Original Message-----
From: David Olbersen <DOlbersen AT stbernard DOT com>
To: bao <bao AT gibbons DOT com>; amanda <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Thursday, March 13, 2003 2:53 PM
Subject: RE: fixed day backup


>Bao,
>
>I don't know why the FAQ says that -- it's simply not true!
>
>We currently have a setup similar to this: incremental every day and full
backups every other weekend.
>
>The trick is to make 2 amanda configurations (say, 'Daily' and 'Archive').
>
>Once you've got that you can just call amanda with the correct
configuration on the right days, i.e.
>
>amdump Daily
>amdump Archive
>
>--------------------------
>David Olbersen
>iGuard Engineer
>11415 West Bernardo Court
>San Diego, CA 92127
>1-858-676-2277 x2152
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bao [mailto:bao AT gibbons DOT com]
>> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 12:25 PM
>> To: amanda
>> Subject: fixed day backup
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> In the Amanda FAQ, there is one question "How can I configure
>> Amanda to
>> perform full backups on the weekend and incrementals on
>> weekdays?". The
>> answer is "You can't."
>>
>> It's unfortunate that the plan above is what I need. I need
>> to run full
>> backup once a week, and incrementals on the other days. All of the
>> backups will stay on disk (tapeless backup), plus the full
>> will be put
>> on tape. Disk only keeps one week (full + incrementals), and
>> tapes keep
>> 8 weeks of full-only.
>>
>> If Amanda manages the full and incremental using its own way.
>> How can I
>> know which one has the full, and when the full is performed,
>> to automate
>> the process of transferring to tape??
>>
>> Has anyone done this sucessfully and How can I do it??
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>>
>