On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 03:47:51PM -0500, Vicki Stanfield wrote: > > 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.
A good additional place to read is the man pages. Under priority this appears: priority "string" Default: medium. When there is no tape to write to, Amanda will do incremental backups in priority order to the holding disk. The priority may be high(2), medium(1), low(0) or a number of your choice. So the difference appears important only when saving ONLY to holding disk. Then you can define which come earlier or later incase the holding disk fills. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)