Greetings.
I have a directory that basically contains one 16GB file (a virtual machine).
I tried to set it up to do full-backups only
laptop /opt/VboxMachine/winxp {
wifi-amgtar-remote
strategy noinc
}
It appears to work correctly, in that it only does full backups. However,
it's doing a full backup every single day.
What with this being 16GB and wifi, I don't need daily backups. I don't
even need weekly backups. Monthly would be fine.
I already have
dumpcycle 30 days
in my amanda.conf file, and I thought that would do the trick. But it
didn't. I guess amanda saw the file changed and tried to do a backup...
which I guess is what a good backup program should do, but not what I
want in this case.
Is there a way to accomplish what I want? A backup roughly once per month,
scheduled by Amanda to keep the balance ... balanced, but not regularly
checked to look for the need to back up again?
Or perhaps is there a better/different way to back up extra-large files
that may only have tiny day-to-day changes? (Will Amanda do block-based
backups?)
The only idea I can think of is with a LVM-based snapshot backup, have
Amanda back up the snapshot, and only update the snapshot every now and
then. But assuming that's a good idea, I'd need a HOWTO for that.
Thanks.
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