In a message dated: Tue, 04 May 2004 05:43:42 EDT
Gene Heskett said:

>But, some have setup two configurations, one that runs weekly and is 
>forced to do fulls on everything in the disklist, and one that runs 
>during the week that does the incrementals.  I do not do that here, 
>so I'l let someone that is doing that explain it better than I can.

It's rather simplistic actually.  I have 3 configurations:

 daily    - runs Mon-Fri, rotates through 12 tapes which remain in the 
            changer at all times.
          - this is a normal amanda config, running level 0s every so 
            often and incrementals in between.

 weekly   - runs each Saturday, uses the last 4 slots of the changer
          - forces a full dump every time
          - tapes get rotated out to be stored off-site.

 archival - runs once per quarter
          - is basically the identical as the weekly with no upper 
            bound on the tapes 
          - tapes get stored off-site indefinitely and never come back
            (or, at some later date, will be determined to be re-usable)

Hope that's helpful to someone.

 
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Seeya,
Paul

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