On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Denise Ives wrote:
> How can I get amanda to do incremental dumps?
>
> The dunmp type i am using now is set to always-full - and I thought amanda
> would run a complete dump and automatically do incrementals based on
> amanda's magic balancing algorithms. I guess my understanding of how
> this program works is gravely mis-understood.
Just use anything else than "always full". Amanda by default will do full
dumps sometimes and incrementals the rest of the time. But if you tell her
to do *always* full backups, well she does :-)
> define dumptype always-full {
> global
> comment "Full dump of this filesystem always"
> compress none
> priority high
> dumpcycle 0
> }
The entry "dumpcycle 0" is the one telling amanda to have level 0
(full) dumps all the time. Just use any dumptype without this entry. Then
the dumpcycle number you specify at the beginning of amanda.conf will be
used.
Peter
