It seems Amanda enterprise has support for a direct-from-vmware backup. You should look into using this to create and maintain a separate set of backups that appear to be tailor made for your purposes
"Stefan G. Weichinger" <[email protected]> wrote: >Am 29.11.2011 17:36, schrieb Brian Cuttler: >> >> So, the idea is to get only fairly recent (no more than 3 day old) >> files that contain "_F_". >> >> Not sure if the nofull strategy will deselect some of the files in >> the include list on you. Depends on how often you generate files with >> "_F_" in the file name and how often you are running amanda. >> >> Do you want "_F_" in the selection and nofull and skip exluding files >> that are more than 3 days old ? If you are backing up more frequently >> than 3 days and you are also generating _F_ files more frequently >> than 3 days you will select them for the include file but I don't >> know if they will be backed up or ignored with the nofull strategy. > >I get your point, sure. As I said, a draft. > >The idea is to run that about once a week (generation-script and >amdump), on weekdays there are other backups (another amanda-config) and >in terms of the VMS, only the file-based-backups to the NAS are done. > >> Let me ask another way. I assumed that nofull would set the dump'd >> bit to level 1 in the file so that the next level 1 would not back it >> up again. Is that the case ? > >Can't tell you now. Started it but had to stop it for today. >More testing maybe tmrw (~8pm here now). > >Stefan
