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Re: dump cycles and such
2006-11-28 15:35:07
Hi Jean-Louis,
I had hoped that the list of possible suffixes (per http://
wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amanda.conf ) could be interpreted to mean
that I could tell Amanda to have a dumpcycle of 4 tapes as opposed to
days. Since you are telling me that that won't work, can I deduce
from that that I can not test out a dumpcycle of 5 days by running
amdump five times in a row (since that will be all on the same day)?
Could it be considered a great feature if dumpcycle could be given in
units of tapes?
Thanks,
René
On Nov 28, 2006, at 2:50 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
dumcycle is a number of days? you set it to 4 days.
The scheduler work in days, not in number of tapes or run.
Jean-Louis
René Kanters wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to set up my test system so that I get on 5 tapes 2
full backups at any time and incremental ones in between them. I
thought that I should be able to do that using in my amanda.conf
these lines:
dumpcycle 4 tapes
runspercycle 4
tapecycle 5
usetimestamps true # make sure I can do more than one test a day
when I run an amdump on this test (all on the same day, since I am
not patient) five times in a row, I end up with no level 0 dumps
(since they got overwritten).
I assumed that by setting the dumpcycle to 4 tapes, I should
always have a full dump every fourth tape and with having a total
of 5 tapes, I'd end up with two level 0 dumps on all my tapes
together.
Am I doing something wrong in the conf file, or is it not possible
to test amdump several times on the same day to try to speed up
the testing of a longer dump cycle?
Thanks,
René
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