On 13-06-2012 02:56, Christ Schlacta wrote: > 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.
Hi Christ, Thank you by your reply. If i break the full tree of this remote server in several DLEs, i could solve the full level 0, but how can i tell the amanda server something like: don't try to get more than 600Mbytes per day from that one server? Or tell: balance the full data from that server in the 5 days of the week per bandwidth or something like that? Your second option: "stable level 0". What do you mean? Can you provide some simple additional information so i can google it? I have searched about it, but didn't find something related. You third option that suggests more than one week is part of the first one? The core question is the restrict bandwith and that a local cache of the remote tree could be a simple solution. There is a way to configure amanda to do that cache? Would be somenthing related to holding disk? Thanks in advance, Joel
