> Can amanda be configured to limit the incremental level?
> I almost always have a few level 2's and often a level 3.
> I'd like to never see anything higher than level 1. Why?
> Restoring is simpler.
man amanda:
bumpsize int
Default: 10 Mbytes. The minimum savings required
to trigger an automatic bump from one incremental
level to the next. If Amanda determines that the
next higher backup level will be this much smaller
than the current level, it will do the next level.
See also the bumpmult option.
bumpmult float
Default: 1.5. The bump size multiplier. Amanda
multiplies bumpsize by this factor for each level.
This prevents active filesystems from bumping too
much by making it harder to bump to the next level.
For example, with the default bumpsize and bumpmult
set to 2.0, the bump threshold will be 10 Mbytes
for level one, 20 Mbytes for level two, 40 Mbytes
for level three, and so on.
bumpdays int
Default: 2. To insure redundancy in the dumps,
Amanda keeps filesystems at the same incremental
level for at least bumpdays days, even if the other
bump threshold criteria are met.
