On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 12:41:48PM -0800, Andrius D. Ilgunas 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?
Consider the various supplied dumptypes as templates
to be customized by the local amanda administrator (AA).
Rather than focusing on the specific settings in the
supplied dumptypes, consider if you, the AA, feel there
is a reason to use different settings for data on the
root or user partitions.
One reason why the root partition(s) might be considered
distinct is that they are fairly stable and for the most
part could be recreated without backups. In contrast,
much user data would be hard or impossible to recreate.
So you might use a longer dumpcycle for root partitions,
or as in the templates, a lower priority.
>
> 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"
You're the AA, add to or change the comments. :)
And if you think they are an improvement, submit
them for inclusion in future releases of amanda.
Jon
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