On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 03:05:06PM -0400, Gabriel O'Brien wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm using amanda to back up three servers using tpchanger "chg-disk".
> 
> Everything is working fine, however due to the fact that I don't have a 
> real tape changer I'd like to be able to take a given snapshot of all 
> systems from time to time and burn it to DVD.  I've already configured 
> the virtual tapes to be somewhat smaller than a DVD.
> 
> From what I understand "dumpcycle" only specifies that a full dump must 
> happen (at least) every 7 days but otherwise it attempts to distribute 
> those full dumps from various filesystems.  Is there a way of enforcing 
> this automatically so that there is a predictable schedule when a dump 
> will contain a full backup of everything (i.e.: every Thursday night)? 

See amadmin manpage for options to force level 0's on demand.

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