Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 03:47:51PM -0500, Vicki Stanfield wrote:I think what I am really talking about is the dumptype. I have the ones I listed defined. I think I might be confusing them with priority. I suppose the dumptype could only mean level of compression. But then I need more information about how Amanda decides what to back up when. I'll look back to the amanda.org site.
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.
Vicki
