On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 16:13, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On 2 Apr 2002 at 3:55pm, Brad Tilley wrote > > > I do the same. Three amanda directories 'daily' 'weekly' and 'monthly' > > that all use the same disklist. But I don't understand how they could > > conflict. They all have record set to yes. I don't archive the monthly > > tapes, I overwrite them every 5 months. > > > > Is it wrong to set all to record yes? > > > That depends. An incremental backup means that everthing that has changed > since the last lower level backup gets put on tape. I.e., a level 1 backs > up everything touched since the last level 0. > > Generally, to do a full restore, you need the last level 0 plus the most > recent level 1. But, if all you have, e.g., is your daily tapes, and the > weekly config updates dumpdates, you may run into a situation where the > daily level 0 is older than the weekly level 0, so your daily level 0 plus > daily level 1 will be missing the stuff that changed between the run of > the daily level 0 and the weekly level 0. > > Alright, that's all real confusing. But, generally, any config that does > full dumps only shouldn't be updated dumpdates.
I forgot to mention that I do only level 0 for all 3 backup sets. So I guess it doesn't matter in my situation, but I see how your example could mess stuff up. Thanks, Brad > > -- > Joshua Baker-LePain > Department of Biomedical Engineering > Duke University
