>Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 18:03:01 +0000 (GMT)
>From: Denise Ives <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>How can I identify amanda tapes by level of dump? I can label a tape
>that had a full dump on Nov1 as daily111 but I can't label a tape
>that had a full dump on Nov 24th as daily1124.........
I'm sorry, but I think the question indicates a misunderstanding.
You may well have things set up so that the idea of a (single) "level
of dump" on the tape corresponds to something that an observer could
reference... but I submit that such a configuration would be rather
anomalous for amanda.
(Granted, I set things up so that there are respects in which my amanda
configuration is rather anomalous, too....)
But usually, amanda will use a mixture of levels during a given dump
run, and the resulting backup images will get written to some set of
tapes. As a result, each tape is likely to have a mixture of full and
incremental (often, of differing levels) backup images on it. That's
(generally) OK; amanda keeps track of what is where, so you can restore
any object that is backed up to its state as of any date it was backed
up.
Where things get potentailly messy with this scheme is with "disaster
recovery preparedness" -- you would need to keep an entire dumpcycle's
worth of media in the "safe location" of your choice. (And if that is
off-site, you no longer have access to these media while you are
on-site.)
Other folks have written about what they do, in ways that are likely
better than I could, so I'll stop here.
Cheers,
david
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