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Re: [Amanda-users] Scheduling backups
2008-12-14 13:05:09
amita0204 wrote:
- If I specify dumpcycle as 0, then I would get full backup every day.
Is that correct?
Yes.
Is it equivalent to specifying dumpcycle as 1 day?
Interesting question. I'll leave that for someone else to answer.
- We can tell Amanda how many backups we want, but we can't specify
particular time for it. But then one can run amcheck and amdump using
crontab. So if one specifies dumpcycle and runspercycle and also uses
crontab for running amdump then will one setting override the other
one?
By "can't specify particular time" we mean that we generally can't expect
full dumps to be run during any particular Amanda run. What we DON'T mean
is that we can't specify when exactly the backup process is being run
(hopefully this sentence had a correct amount of negatives). This is
specified exactly in the crontab, which is the typical way for scheduling
backups. Amanda doesn't have a will of her own which would allow her to
wake up on a random moment during the day and start making backups. It is
administrator's responsibility to schedule the amdump process so that it's
interference with normal daily system usage is minimal. Crontab is
arguably the best way to achieve this.
- Can I specify when not to run any backup process? I would like backs
to run only during system idle time. So is there any setting that can
be done in Amanda?
See above.
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Toomas Aas
... Show respect to age. Drink good scotch.
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