On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:06:38AM +1100, Ben Elliston wrote:
> I back up a partition on a remote machine, connected by a 28.8k modem.
> After only two days, Amanda has decided to do a level 0 backup of this
> partition, which seems strange, if not wrong.
>
> How can I discourage her from doing level 0s until the end of the dumpcycle?
> Almost nothing is as bad as doing a level 0 over this link.
Consider maintaining a local image of anything at the far end
of such a slow link. "rsync -avx -e ssh" can be used.
The advantage of this is you do the level 0, effectively, only
once over the slow link. The rsync program transfers only
incremental changes after that.
I run amanda from a shell script invoked over cron. This script does
any necessary preparation, including rsync of remote sites, database
dumps, and so on, runs the amanda backups, then ejects the tape.
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