On Wed February 26 2003 17:22, Seth, Wayne (Contractor) wrote: >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!
Yes, and your quoting is broken, making it look as if I wrote both you message above, and my message below. Please adjust your email agent. >-----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
