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Re: dumpcycle question

2003-09-04 13:45:50
Subject: Re: dumpcycle question
From: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
To: Charlie Wiseman <wiseman AT cs.utk DOT edu>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 13:41:54 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 at 1:16pm, Charlie Wiseman wrote

> We're moving to a new backup scheme that also includes
> doing disk backups.  So, we want to take a level 0 (with 
> Amanda) of all of our systems twice a week, say Mondays 
> and Thursdays, and no backups in between.  Is this possible 
> with Amanda?  How exactly does it decide when to do the dump
> if I specified dumpcycle=1 week and runspercycle=2?

So you basically want level 0s every time you run amanda.  In that case, 
just put 'dumpcycle 0', and 'runspercycle 1' (the latter is actually 
irrelevant).

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University


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