Paul,
> ...and to also be clear, you are running this secondary, once-a-week,
> full-only run with "record no", correct?
Correct.
While I had considered it at the time we added the secondary
config, I did ultimately decide that the weekend full should
use "record no".
I imagine there are circumstances when someone would want to
allow "record yes" when doing this, I decided that my setup
wasn't one of them.
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 12:00:51PM -0800, Paul Yeatman wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 11:53 -0500, Brian Cuttler wrote:
> > Anderson,
> >
> > I do something similar. Having an LTO3 what we don't change the
> > tape in (this particular jukebox in the the favorite one onsite)
> > we needed to extend the dumpcycle - or rather, the ability to
> > recover files more than a week and a half old (the number of runs
> > we get using 16 tapes in the jukebox, 5 runs/week and more than
> > one tape/run).
> >
> > We continue to use the older L9/LTO jukebox for a once/week run
> > and I have the current relevent parameters set
> >
> > dumpcycle 1 weeks
> > runspercycle 1
> > tapecycle 20 tapes
> > runtapes 9
> >
> > I suppose you could also use the dumptype "alwaysfull"
> >
> > I get multiple runs from the tapecycle and have no trouble
> > pulling data from the older tapes. Of course I use amrestore
> > rather than amrecover, if that is what you are asking about...
> >
> > Sorry - I want to be really clear - I have two amanda configs
> > on the system, one for 5/week and one for weekly (1/week), called
> > apropriately from cron.
> >
> > If you are using a single config and want to force a weekly
> > level 0 for offsite or achive, I did that on a different system,
> > I have a friday morning cron entry that invokes # amadmin force
>
> ...and to also be clear, you are running this secondary, once-a-week,
> full-only run with "record no", correct?
>
> Paul
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 11:41:10AM -0500, Krahn, Anderson wrote:
> > > Here's a question i have created a new configuration file for a second
> > > run that will be a full offsite run.
> > > My requirements are to have
> > > a) a full run once a week
> > > b) a rotation of 3 weeks before re-writing to a tape in the tape list.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > here are my current parameters in amanda.conf
> > >
> > >
> > > dumpcycle 0 weeks # the number of days in the normal dump cycle
> > >
> > > runspercycle 3 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days --
> > > i believe this should be "0" too.
> > >
> > >
> > > tapecycle 4 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation
> > >
> > >
> > > My question is considering the dumpcycle is 0 would i be able to restore
> > > from a tape that is 2 weeks old?
> > > I believe the answer is yes becuase i dont think amanda expires data on
> > > a tape?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Anderson
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > ---
> > Brian R Cuttler brian.cuttler AT wadsworth DOT org
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