On Sunday 18 July 2004 18:06, Mike Fedyk wrote: >M3 Freak wrote: >>On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 18:59, Mike Fedyk wrote: >>>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. > >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. > >>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 The faq-o-matic is I believe, editable. If you can improve it, and have the time, please do so. Be aware that the editor sucks dead toads thru a soda straw, to plagurize a Joanne Dow phrase. I'm a vi man, so I quickly got lost in that thing, whatever it is. -- Cheers, Gene There are 4 boxes to be used in defense of liberty. Soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order, starting now. -Ed Howdershelt, Author Additions to this message made by Gene Heskett are Copyright 2004, Maurice E. Heskett, all rights reserved.
