On 6/12/2012 21:27, Joel Franco Guzmán - Oryon TI wrote:
Hi,
I have an amanda server running fine but some of my clients are remote
servers behind a slow bandwitdth data link that requires more than 24h
to do a level 0 backup.
This turns infeasible the level 0 backup once a week.
I have already a rsync full image of this server and the daily rsync is
quick enough to finish in less than 60min.
The question is: there are some elegant solution to my problem or should
i do a daily rsync to my amanda server to read the tree to backup?
Regards,
Joel
You have a couple options. Firstly you could break it into multiple
DLEs and try to get those spread over multiple days for level 0.
Secondly, you can do some kerjiggery with amanda to use a stable level
0, and never bump lower than 1. I don't remember the howto off the top
of my head. This is useful especially for mostly-stable datasets. If
you're backing up the entire OS image, this is probably what you want
anyway. Finally, you can extend your amanda cycle out to be longer than
a week.
Those are just the possible solutions I know of. there likely exists
many more.
