Nathan Stratton Treadway writes: >On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 07:06:55 -0400, hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: >> >> Let's say I have a very recent full (level 0) backup of /home. If I >> split up my /home into two or three DLEs, will Amanda recognize that it >> already has a level-0 backup, and then take level-1 backups of the new >> DLEs? Or will amanda see the new DLEs as "completely new" and require >> a first-time level-0 backup? > >The latter. Incremental backups (and also "exclude"/"include" >processing) involve a "multi-layer" cordination between Amanda and the >backup program, and there's no mechanism in there to detect that a new >DLE happens to be a subset of some other DLE, or whatever. So Amanda >has to treat each DLE separately, and start from scratch for a newly >create one.
Bummer. Thanks. --hymie! http://lactose.homelinux.net/~hymie hy...@lactose.homelinux.net
