My site generally follows the amanda scheduling policy
but we've one or two systems where they really want
complete offsite backups once/week.
We added a line to cron that executes on fridays only
that does an amadmin force of the partitions.
The general result is that we need to run flushes on Monday...
I think we need off-site more than weekly (this is our real
offsite, not down the hall but actually another building).
> On Thu, 6 May 2004 at 10:53pm, Gavin Henry wrote
>
> >I would like to change my amanda.conf to do full backups on Fridays?
> ...
> >Here is my current setup:
> >
> >dumpcycle 9 days # the number of days in the normal dump cycle
> >runspercycle 9 days # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days
> >tapecycle 12 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation
>
> If it is to make an archive backup to be stored offsite, then you better
> make another configuration with "dumpcycle 0" and run that config
> only on friday. Use a dumptype similar to this:
>
> define dumptype allways-full {
> program "GNUTAR"
> index yes
> record no
> compress client fast
> dumpcycle 0
> skip-incr yes # emphasize we only want full dumps
> strategy noinc # also reduce time to do estimates
> }
>
> The "record no" is there to not disturb the daily config.
>
> If it is because all the other backup schemes you know are doing this,
> then wait until the others have catched up with the scheduling policy
> of Amanda, and let Amanda do it her way.
>
> >>What do I need to read?
>
>
>
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