I am using amanda to back up my servers. I have the following situation:
There is about 42G of data to be backed up on one particular machine. This data is mostly static data in a directory structure which creates a new directory whenever 1000 files are in the current directory and numbers the new directory incrementally. It looks like this:
/project/newarchive/0 contains files 0-999 /project/newarchive/1 contains files 1000-1999 /project/newarchive/1 contains files 2000-2999 etc.
The previous directories are necessary for the program to run successfully but will remain static once the next directory is created. I need a backup solution that is appropriate for this. What is appropriate for this situation?
Vicki
P.S. I think I asked before but didn't get an answer. Is there a source for an explanation of the different priorities of backups. I have the following defined from an inherited amanda.conf file:
always-full (obvious) comp-low-tar comp-med-tar comp-high-tar low-tar med-tar high-tar comp-low-dump comp-med-dump comp-high-dump low-dump med-dump high-dump
The explanations in the amanda.conf are insufficient. I need to know what decisions amanda makes when determining how often to back up each dumptype.
