I don't treat them any differently.   So yes,  I think the comment should be 
"low priority"  vs  "medium" priority.
I don't make that distinction on my disks.  

Deb Baddorf


On Jan 29, 2014, at 2:41 PM, "Andrius D. Ilgunas" <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> Still going through my learning curve and I'm studying dumptypes by looking 
> at the examples.
> 
> How/why does amanda differentiate between a root partition and a user 
> partition?
> 
> e.g.
> 
> define dumptype root-tar {
>    global            
>    program "GNUTAR"
>    comment "root partitions dumped with tar"
>    compress none
>    index
>    priority low
> }
> 
> define dumptype user-tar {
>    root-tar         
>    comment "user partitions dumped with tar"
>    priority medium
> }
> 
> Other than user-tar depending on the existence of and inheriting root-tar 
> parameters, and having different priority levels, is there any other 
> difference between the two?  Are DLEs using each treated differently somehow?
> 
> If not, then it seems to me that maybe the comment might be better explained 
> as:
> 
> comment "low priority dumped with tar" and "medium priority dumped with tar"
> 
> Or am I getting hung up on semantics and I should worry about more important 
> things?
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Andrius


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