M3 Freak wrote:
On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 18:59, Mike Fedyk wrote:Yes, I understand that, but sometimes you need to say "yes, there was is full backup on X tapes every other Friday" and not have to explain that you'll have to check to see which tape contains a full backup of this volume.
Hi,
I have Amanda setup to run a daily backup Monday through Friday night. That works fine.
But now I want to add a full backup every two weeks on Friday night and I'm having trouble creating cron entries that don't have the commands running on the same day for full and daily backups.
While I appreciate what you're trying to do, do you realize that
AMANDA's entire reason for being is to make backups easier by not
telling her what to do? You are supposed to specify your tape and dump
cycles, and then let AMANDA figure out the rest. She'll schedule full
dumps when she feels they're required, but the entire decision is based
on how you set up the tape and dump cycles.
AMANDA is a great backup program, but I see people trying to force backup schedules all the time. It's not needed.
You should subscribe to the AMANDA mailing list. It has got to be one
of the best, if not the best, mailing list out there. People are
insanely helpful.
I just did that as a matter of fact.
Amanda looks pretty good now that I'm figuring out how it works, but the documentation is horrendous (especially the faq-o-matic).
Mike
