> On Dec 16, 2016, at 12:03 PM, Ochressandro Rettinger > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I’ve got Amanda running in the normal manner, with a 10 day > tape cycle, 7 day dump cycle, and 5 runspercycle, letting Amanda handle when > to do fulls and incrementals. My boss wants to do separate monthly full > backups on top of that. I found the FAQ answer that talks about using a > completely separate set of tapes and setting “record no”, but I was wondering > what that actually does? Does it tell the *client* not to record something, > or the server? And what is it not recording, at that point?
The “dumpdates” file (or equivalent for tar) is what is NOT recorded to. This is so that the “daily” config (whatever you named it) still knows to refer to its own level 0 tapes as the base for incremental runs. Therefore, when you recover a file from the daily config, it looks to the level 0 on the daily tape, plus any pertinent incrementals. (at least, this is my understanding) The archive config (or whatever YOU name it) it used only when you explicitly refer to it, as you state below. > > Does recovering data from one of those tapes work just like > recovering from a regular tape, only using the name of the new config with > ‘amrecover’? Yup, exactly like that. I’ve done it this way for more than 10 years. Deb Baddorf Fermilab > > -Sandro
