On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 at 10:11am, Nitesh Kumar A. wrote > Since level 1 backups everything since the last backup, that is level 0, > we will get replication of files (redundancy) irrespective of whether the > files are modified or not in the subsequent backups on the rest of the > days. In the sense on saturday, we will get files, a, b, c, d and e too. > > So tuesday: a, b > wed: a, b, c > thu: a, b, c, d and so on. (irrespective of whether the files are > modified or not. this will result in redundancy). > > is there some mechanism to minimize it? y waste the tape.. .
It's not a waste when you go to do a full restore, and only need two tapes rather than the whole weeks worth. > so when will the tape drive1 get a chance to be overwritten? do we need to > relabel it again? Once you've used 'tapecycle' worth of tapes, amanda will start asking for the already used tapes. Don't relabel. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
