Oh, that’s right — Chris DID tell us what he was trying to do, last week: (in case it helps with any further answers)
> On Dec 7, 2018, at 12:04 PM, Chris Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > I'm about to start a project during which I want to be able to: > • Request a backup at any moment and have that backup be either an > incremental backup (Level N+1), meaning everything that has changed since the > last backup (Level N), or a differential backup, meaning everything that has > changed since the last full backup (Level 1). The second provision, > "differential backup" is pretty straight forward, but I have no idea how to > configure a constantly increasing dump level. > • The first backup of the day, meaning the first backup after midnight, > will be a full filesystem backup. > > Discussion on point 1: > The provision is for capturing changes that occur during a given period of > time, and no so much for "backup" per se, so AMANDA may not be the best tool, > but it is what I have, so I'm tying to make it fit. I know how to request a > backup, so that's not my problem, but I don't know how to force a given > level. In particular, I don't know how to force a Level N+1 backup. I could > replace the Level N+1 requirement with a forced Level 1, run my experiment, > and force a level 2, and this would meet my requirement of capturing all the > changes during a particular interval. But, again, that requires forcing > AMANDA to take direction about backup levels and I don't know how to do that. > > Before anybody reminds me that this is why god invented git, I would like to > add, that the scope of git is typically only known parts of the project, and > I want to capture log files and other files that are sometimes created in > temporary locations with temporary names, which are not known a priori and > therefore can't be "managed" with git. > > Discussion on point 2: > The "first backup of the day", will run as a cron job, but it must be a level > 0, full filesystem backup so no work for the day is lost. It is more forcing > AMANDA to take direction, I don't know exactly how to do this. > > I don't think I like the idea of forcing AMANDA (#MeToo) to do things, but > I'm not above payment in kind. (-: > > Thanks for the help, > -- > Chris. > > V:916.974.0424 > F:916.974.0428
