Hi,
thanks again for the replies. I think Jon's suggestion of using labels such
as daily-9b sounds like the best option in my case.
Yep reconnecting the SCSI cables cut amanda's dump time in half! Whoohoo!
If I did change to incremental backups in future, then I assume this would
then be correct, right?
dumpcycle 7 days (full backup once every 7 days, with incrementals
in-between)
runspercycle 5 days (amdump runs 5 times per dumpcycle - Monday to Friday)
tapecycle 21 tapes (4 weeks' worth of backups + 1 tape to prevent
overwriting a last level 0)
I also have that problem where my first 5 tapes are requested out of
sequence by amanda, so if I leave the tapecycle at 21 tapes, but actually
use 26 tapes, then I'd be able to fix that issue too by the time amanda has
ran through the entire set of tapes? Is that correct?
Regular expressions do my head it...but I've come up with this to enable me
to label tapes daily-1 or daily-1b, etc:
labelstr "daily-[0-9][0-9]*[a-z]*"
:)
Jon LaBadie wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 08:51:32AM -0700, Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)
> wrote:
>>
>> The amanda configuration I'm planning to put live this week includes
>> these
>> entries in amanda.conf:
>>
>> dumpcycle 0 (to force a full backup on every run, because all our data
>> fit
>> comfortably onto a single tape every night, and amdump only runs for 4.5
>> hours)
>
> Gee, I thought it took about 53 hours for your taping.
> Oh you reconnected the cables huh? ;))
>
>> runspercycle 5 days (to do an amdump each day Monday to Friday)
>
> No, that is runs per dumpcycle. Your dumpcycle is basically 1 day,
> you are only doing one run per day.
>
>> tapecycle 21 tapes (to have 4 weeks' worth of "historical backups" + one
>> extra tape for good measure)
>>
>> How do I now handle taking out one tape a month for long-term archiving?
>>
>
> You could use a lower tapecycle setting but really use 21 tapes.
> Then amanada wouldn't care if one went away. Otherwise, add a
> newly labeled tape.
>
>> If my tapes are labelled daily-1, daily-2, etc., then how do I take out
>> one
>> tape a month but make sure that this doesn't confuse amanda, and that I
>> will
>> be able to restore from that tape in the future?
>
> amadmin <config> noreuse tapelabel
>
>>
>> Do I add a new tape each time in my numbering sequence?
>>
>> Can I reuse tape labels but somehow cause amanda to not overwrite the
>> information needed to do restores from the archived tapes?
>
> Not with amanda capabilities.
> How about when you remove daily-9, you make a new tape as daily-9b
> or daily-9.1. Reset your label string appropriately.
>
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