On 18 Jul 2002 at 9:45pm, Mark Cooke wrote > NOTES: > planner: Full dump of idun:/home/mail specially promoted from 5 days > ahead. > taper: tape Daily-02 kb 223488 fm 14 [OK] > > This is the second day of a 6 day dumpcycle, running amdump every day. > The first day (yesterday, I'm still testing) done a Level 0 backup and > today done a level 1 except /home/mail, which was marked as a level 0. > > Am I correct in thinking that as that directory contents has changed so > much it has brought the full dump forward for that specific directory?
Not quite. Amanda's goal is to balance the nightly backups while meeting the requirements set forth in amanda.conf. By balance I mean that amanda wants to back up about the same amount of data every amdump run. So, if the incrementals alone aren't big enough, amanda will promote disks which weren't yet due for a level 0 in order to use more tape. Of course, this also means that you get more level 0s, which is never a bad thing. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
