On 20-06-2012 01:57, Toomas Aas wrote: > Hello! > >> >> Does this means that the last recoverable backup is at 2012-06-11? I >> suspect of that because the older backups are level 1 and so are not >> recoverable without a level 0. Am i correct? > > Yes. Wow! This is really a big surprise to me. I can conclude that i can't guarantee several days of backup, but just the last one (or at most the last 2) ?
This situation is the possibility that in one backup set where there are several big size DLEs the level 0 backup is uncommon. Then is possible that the DLE had several level 1 old backups and the level 0 (before the level 1s) be overwritten by the current backup. Then i just have one (or 2) complete backup. The simple question: How many days can i guarantee of valid full backups in a amanda system when the incremental backup is used (the common situation) ? Another point is that this situation - full backups recovery in the full horizon of the tapes used - is not always possible. This is not clear nor underlined in the amanda documentation and in the wiki. If i don't observe my backups in conclude that alone, i probably will never know about that. Do you think that this information would be more clear and exposed to the amanda administrators? Regards, Joel
