On Wednesday 04 April 2007, Michael Keightley wrote:
>I have setup Amanda to backup to vtape.  I want to do a full backup once
>per week, incremental other days (weekdays only), but keep 1 month of
>backups.  I'm a bit confused about how to set this up in amanda.conf.
>
>Would this work?
>
>dumpcycle 1 weeks
>runspercycle 5
>tapecycle 20 tapes
>
>Will having 20 vtapes mean it does 20 backups?
>
>Michael

Generally speaking, you do not tell amanda when to make the level 0 
backups.  Amanda will play mix and match to attempt to use the same 
amount of tape per run, which means that after it has been running a 
while, a full dump of a given dle might happen on a wednesday one week, 
thursday the next week and tuesday the week after that because amanda is 
juggling the schedule trying to hit a magic balance point.

You can, but you will have to play tricks with multiple configuration 
setups and such.

Amanda must make a level 0 before it can do any incremental's because it 
must have a level 0 record to have a starting point.

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