Someone recently recommended "Unix Backup & Recovery" by W. Curtis Preston to me. I am just now wading through the amanda section so I cannot tell you if it's any good. But, there certainly is a lot of material there!
-----Original Message----- From: Gene Heskett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 12:29 PM To: Ralph Bearpark; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Amanda Backup Strategy On Wed February 26 2003 11:16, Ralph Bearpark wrote: >> Yep. Amanda gets estimates for all the DLEs at multiple >> incremental levels, and figures out the "best" thing to do >> within the tapelength it has. > >Even to the extent of not doing any sort of backup at all on some > or many of the DLEs? If so, how on earth does it decide which? Amanda shouldn't have to deal with that, so the normal "startup" procedure is to only give amanda enough acive DLE's to fill a tape each night until all have been done, thereby giving amanda some help on the initial "balance" settings. But, if the tapetype is properly set, I don't *think* amanda will take a chance on hitting EOT as it will delay enough to assure it won't hit EOT. I've seen that in my email from amanda a time or 2. >(If this is all documented somewhere, please tell me where and > I'll stop asking my stupid questions! :-)) The only really stupid question is the one not asked. ;-) -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.23% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
