--- Frank Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > As per the AMANDA faqs, "AMANDA spreads full > backups > > along the dumpcycle, so you wont' have any > full-only > > or incremental-only runs." > > > > What I understand from this is that if you have > > multiple filesystems on multiple hosts to be > backed up > > in an AMANDA dumpcycle, AMANDA will take care of > > spreading the full backups of different > > areas/filesystems on different days so that it is > not > > overloaded on weekends for doing the full backups > > (Correct me if I am wrong). However in my case, I > have > > only one area or one filesystem on one host to be > > backed up. Data created by all users which needs > to be > > backed up is stored by them under one directory on > a > > central file server, which will be backed up by > > AMANDA. Now in this case, how will AMANDA spread > the > > full and the incremental backup load (because it > has > > only one area to be backed up in the whole > dumpcycle)? > > Yes, if you have only one DLE Amanda obviously can't > spread > its full dump over several days. You could use tar > instead > of dump, and make each subdirectory a separate DLE, > then the > fulls could be spread out.
Thanks for the reply. So if I only have one DLE, will the full backup always take place on a particular day and will only incremental backups be taken on the remaining days? Or will it be handled in some different way? Thanks Yogesh ____________________________________________________________________________________ Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-index
