--On Tuesday, June 07, 2005 13:13:57 +1000 "Keenan, Greg John (Greg)** CTR **" 
<gjkeenan AT lucent DOT com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm curious how admins out there handle the off-site storage situation.  The
> requirement here is that full weekly backups are stored off-site for 4
> weeks, full monthly backups for 6 months etc.
> 
> Obviously letting Amanda decide when level 0 should be done on a DLE doesn't
> give you a bunch of tapes on Friday with all DLE's level 0.
> 
> The previous admin forced the situation with the amadmin force option.  Is
> this the best way?  Is there another way?  I'm happy to try and change the
> full-friday mindset here if there is a better solution.
> 

You could run a separate config (using always-full and record no) weekly
and take that set off-site.

Another option would be to take a dumpcycle's worth of tapes off-site; there
should be at least one full of each DLE in the set.

If you have a remote location with a tape drive (and adequate bandwidth), you
can run an Amanda config remotely.  Then the tapes are off-site as soon as
they are written.  For a shorter backup window, do the full backups to an
on-site disk, then backup that remotely.

I'm sure there are other ways as well.

Frank

> Appreciate any insight.
> 
> Regards,
> Greg.



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