Probably very stupid questions, but can someone shed some light on very simple questions: what exactly are the differences between the different levels of backup? I searched the documentation and arcives but so far I have not found the exact definitions.
As I understand: - level 0 is full-backup - level 1 is incremental backup, based on modification time (?) - what are the higher levels ??? And to be sure: - at least once per dumpcycle there is a fullbackup - the other runs are mostly level 1 (incremental), so all changes to the filesystems are on tape - is this right ??? I ask now, because untill now we "only" had to backup FreeBSD servers acting as routers, gateways. firewalls, mailrelayservers etc. None of them had real fast-changing user-data, so up-to-date restores were not an high-priority issue and we never had to restore something (rock-solid os!). But now we are moving to imap-mail and that means that there are lots of user-data which change very often and have to restore more often (users delete mail-folders accidently), so I have to be sure that all changed data is backed-up every run, users do not want mails missing. Last question: - are there gui-frontends for the restore, that work for the helpdesk staff (they cannont work with the amrestore interface) ? thanks in advance Jeroen Heijungs Het Muziektheater Amsterdam
