Amanda Backup Strategy

2003-02-26 Thread Ralph Bearpark
restore a little messier but I simply don't have unlimited disk space for amanda to use. Thanks in anticipation for advice. Regards, Ralph Bearpark.

Re: Amanda Backup Strategy

2003-02-26 Thread Ralph Bearpark
Linebreaks, man, use some line breaks... Sorry, dude, sorry... Not that I know of, but in the 2.4.4 ReleaseNotes it says that it tries to reduce the number of level 0s per host each night. I guess that *might* help. I could probably get it down to a full backup every week. Would I just

Re: Amanda Backup Strategy

2003-02-26 Thread Ralph Bearpark
Remember, you can always split up your filesystems into multiple disklist entries using tar. Then you could reduce your tapelength to have *just enough* to fit everything once. Hmm, dividing my clients into multiple DLEs that I hope will never exceed 600MB ... that's an ugly concept. I

RE: Amanda Backup Strategy

2003-02-26 Thread Ralph Bearpark
Yep. Amanda gets estimates for all the DLEs at multiple incremental levels, and figures out the best thing to do within the tapelength it has. Even to the extent of not doing any sort of backup at all on some or many of the DLEs? If so, how on earth does it decide which? (If this is all