Hi, Eugen,

on Donnerstag, 22. Jänner 2004 at 16:19 you wrote to amanda-users:

EL> I'm stuck (i.e. regardless of whether this makes sense, or no, sounds 
familiar?)
EL> with the following set of requirements:

EL> * 5 machines (it's good: 5 days/week, one overnight run/machine)
EL> * one full backup of all machines/month
EL> * four incremental backups/month, relative to above full dumps
EL> * two months sliding window, after which incremental backup tapes are reused
EL> * storage depth of one year

EL> So I'm going to use a tape/day, labeled DailyMachineWeekdayNumber,
EL> e.g. u03Monday01,u03Monday02, u03Monday03, u03Monday04. Is it possible to 
promote
EL> a full dump, say, Monday for u01, Tuesday for u02, etc., and store diffs 
relative
EL> to it?

EL> How do I do that?

Please don't do that. At least don't try to do that with AMANDA.

AMANDA is NOT DESIGNED to do what you describe above.

AMANDA is designed to schedule your backups in a way to successfully
meet your goals.

You don't say: Do a full backup of DLE host/disk on Monday.
You say: I want at least one full backup of DLE host/disk in X days.

You could FORCE AMANDA into doing it the old way but it is like
tightening screws with a hammer. Not a good solution.

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This is a topic that appears very often on the list.
You can browse the archives to find all the discussions ...

It's definitely a FAQ.

Also maybe consult: http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/28.html

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best regards,
Stefan

Stefan G. Weichinger
mailto:monitor AT oops.co DOT at