From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Sep 18 14:16:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA27612 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 14:16:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from garion.hq.ferg.com (pm3-09.wmbg.widomaker.com [204.17.220.169]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA27581 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 14:16:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from garion.hq.ferg.com (localhost.hq.ferg.com [127.0.0.1]) by garion.hq.ferg.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA20503; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 17:16:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 17:16:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Branson Matheson X-Sender: branson@garion.hq.ferg.com To: Matt Hamilton cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Backup strategies In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Matt Hamilton wrote: > However we need to be able to restore from the > backups, not just the latest material, but also (if something REALLY goes > wrong) restore from a couple of days or weeks ago. Is this possible using > the Tower of Hanoi? I know I could get Amanda to do a level 0 dump > everynight... but want to try and avoid that if possible. > If so how would I implement a weekly cycle in which we have tapes > Mon, Tue, Wen, Thu, Fri in which a full backup is done every Friday and > then taken offsite and new tape replaces it? Hmmm.. mabey you don't understand how amanda works... it will do a complete level 0 once per dumpcycle and the rest of the time it will do incrementals... that means that you _can_ restore using the full backups and the incrimentals. And if you need to go back further.. just keep more tapes in rotation.. I have 60 tapes here with a 5 day backup cycle so that means I can go 12 weeks and restore a file. > Can anyone help me out here? Hope this helps. -branson ============================================================================= Branson Matheson | Ferguson Enterprises | If Pete and Repeat were System Administrator | W: (804) 874-7795 | sittin on a fence and Pete Unix, Perl, WWW | branson@widomaker.com | fell off, who is left?