On Wednesday 02 March 2005 06:00, ddaasd wrote:
>I want to start the cycle on Monday. I want only on Monday to change
> the
>
>tapes and I want to know that in a cycle I have the backups for one
> week from Monday till Friday.
>If one day a dump can not be performed can I then run amdump 2 times
> to catch amanda?
>
That will no doubt help, but be aware that amanda doesn't track the 
time, only the date so its possible that the results might be 
somewhat different than would be obtained from an unbroken schedule.

>ddaas
>
>Gene Heskett schrieb:
>>On Wednesday 02 March 2005 04:33, ddaasd wrote:
>>>Hi all,
>>>How can I find which run from the runspercycle will amanda run
>>>tonight?
>>>
>>>For example: runpercycle=5. On Monday is the first run, Thuesday
>>> is the second and so on. On Friday  should be la last Amanda run
>>> from that cycle. But if Amanda skips one night (error,
>>> intentional or something else) that night doesn't count and for
>>> example on Friday can be the 4th run instead of 5th from its
>>> cycle and on Monday the last (the 5^th ). I hope I made myself
>>> clear.
>>>How can I find this?
>>
>>If cron tried to run amanda, but failed due to a missing tape,
>> thats still counted against the runspercycle I believe.  If it was
>> ever started, that wouldn't count, but amanda does keep track of
>> the dates and will know that some catchup is going to be needed,
>> possibly overrunning the tapes capacity for the next several runs.

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