"John R. Jackson" schrieb:
>
> >Amanda is responsible for determining what filesystems get dumped to
> >tape. If a filesystem has not changed why does amanda still dump it?
>
> Back to what Bernhard brought up -- how would Amanda know nothing had
> changed? Amanda knows **nothing** about the format of the images it is
> saving for you. So how would it know an image is "empty"?
from the estimation-phase?
amanda knows the last incremetal level of the filesystem.
AFAIR it asks for the size of this level and the next higher
incremental,
correct?
now, if the filesystem didn't change since the last incremental the size
of the next higher level would be 0, so amanda knows exactly when a
filesystem didn't change since the last backup.
don't you think?
Christoph
> Amanda's point in life is to manage backup images. It very deliberately
> stays out of what those images look like. When DUMPER-API comes on
> line, those images could contain raw disk images or random bits for all
> Amanda will care. The only thing Amanda has to do is give you back what
> was saved.
>
> >Robert Minsk
>
> John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
