I'm not having any problems with amanda, but the results do seem 'over-the'top' for my needs, which leads me to wonder whether I need to change some parameters.
At the moment there are three DLEs. One is a backup of the whole /home with a few exceptions, and that is quite big, around 21GB. The other two are relatively small, less than 1GB each. The amount of data that changes in a day is quite small. The DLEs are set to a 4-day rotation, but in practice I am seeing level 0 backups almost every other day, for all of them. It would seem reasonable, to me, based on the small amount of changes, to have a level0 weekly, for all of them, I think. There are other areas that I haven't been including, but intend to. These consist of home video, so contain a few large files in each directory. These do not change at all, so only new material would need to be backed up. I'm thinking that maybe I should comment out everything else and run a backup on the video directories only when new material is added, then comment out the video DLEs and continue with normal ones afterwards. Would that be sensible? I did wonder if it was possible to define a completely separate set of parameters for these video directories, using a monthly rotation, say, but I get the impression that that's not possible. I'd be glad of any advice, hints and tips, for tackling these issues. Anne
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