On Monday 17 April 2006 16:47, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > > If you want a level0 weekly why not set your dumpcycle to 7 days? This > basically tells Amanda to try and do weekly level0 backups and > incrementals are okay in between. > That's what I thought, thanks.
> Another thing you can do that helped me out a lot - change the bump > parameters! I work with a fairly large Amanda setup where disk space > is usually at a premium. I was able to save a lot of space by tuning > the bump parameters to do more higher-level incremental backups. > > While the system previously wasted a lot of diskspace in the second > half of the cycle doing level 1 and 2 backups, now it usually bumps > every day, hitting level 5 or 6 by the end of the week. > > Of course you take a hit on restore time, but restores are pretty > decent from virtual tape as it is, so I'm not too concerned about > there being five or six steps instead of two or three. Hmm, now we have to see whether I've understood this correctly. The situation, IIUI, is that if a backup is close to being a full backup it will bump it right to level 0, but also bumping is used to balance out the workload in some way. No, I don't understand it. So - would you mind being quite specific in what I would need to do? It sounds as though your method would match my needs. Thanks Anne
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