Hi,
Jens Berg (Mi 08 Mär 2023 10:06:34 CET):
> She does in the moment a tape (= slot) is re-used.
…
> Remember that amanda was initially designed to work with tapes and that
Olivier (Mi 08 Mär 2023 11:46:37 CET):
> While the tape/slot could free the level 1 dumps for a-disk, there could be
>
I would also like to add that it is good to have backups from varying dates
around in case the most recent backup is ex after a file was accidentally
deleted and you need to restore it from an older backup.
Anton "exuvo" Olsson
ex...@exuvo.se
On 2023-03-08 12:20, Heiko Schlittermann wrote:
Hello Heiko,
I usually used the amrestore command to find out, which tapes I would need for
restoring a particular point in time.
So this answers the question, which tapes (=storage) is used for backups of a
particular DLE.
Yours,
Ingo
Am 8. März 2023, 08:10, um 08:10, Heiko Schlittermann
On 08.03.2023 08:14, Heiko Schlittermann wrote:
- Does amanda delete these files? From the output of `amadmin find` it
does not look as if it does.
She does in the moment a tape (= slot) is re-used.
Remember that amanda was initially designed to work with tapes and that
using disks as
Ingo Schaefer (Mi 08 Mär 2023 11:15:34 CET):
> Hello Heiko,
>
> I usually used the amrestore command to find out, which tapes I would need
> for restoring a particular point in time.
> So this answers the question, which tapes (=storage) is used for backups of a
> particular DLE.
amrestore
Hi,
> Given a series of dumps like
>
> a-host a-disk 1 1 1 0 1 1
>
> the left most level 1 dumps are worthless, because we already dropped
> the "base" level 0.
While the tape/slot could free the level 1 dumps for a-disk, there could be
some DLE for other disks/hosts that are still valid
