On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 at 5:24pm, 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.
Every DLE is backed up every night. The level depends not on the dumptype (unless you've specified always-full or something like that) but on dumpcycle and runspercycle. dumpcycle=max amount of time before full (level 0) backups runspercycle=number of 'amdump' runs per dumpcycle You'll also need to coordinate these with tapecycle, which is the number of tapes you'll let amanda use. Generally you'll want tapecycle>=1.5*runspercycle for error protection. Note also that all of the above assumes runtapes=1. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
