Author: Yogesh Hasabnis <yhmail29 AT yahoo.co DOT in>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:05:48 -0800 (PST)
Hi All, Does AMANDA support differential backups? Can anybody provide me pointers about the terms "level 0 backup", "level 1 backup"......"level 9 backup" etc? Thanks in advance. Yogesh _____________
Descibing it is easy. A level 'N' is all changes since the most recent dump of a level lower numerically than 'N' Amanda only goes in single level steps (others may jump around) So a level 4 is all c
Hi Listserv, Does anyone know how to configure amanda to take differential backups ?? TIA Bernie Wu bernard_wu AT ncci DOT com The information contained in this e-mail message is intended only for th
Author: Graeme Humphries <graeme.humphries AT vcom DOT com>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:09:08 -0600
Hi Listserv, Does anyone know how to configure amanda to take differential backups ?? I assume you mean a situation where you want to only back up the changes from the previous day? I imagine you'd
Hi Graeme, By differential, I mean accumulating all the daily incremental backups into one backup tape. I think the way it works is something like this: On Sun take a level 0 backup ( Full backup ) O
Author: Graeme Humphries <graeme.humphries AT vcom DOT com>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 10:19:16 -0600
On Wed, the backup should contaon Monday's, Tuesday's and Wednesday's changes. - level 1, level 2 and level 3 And so on and so forth. Thus on Saturday, the backup tape should contain all of Monday's
That is basically what dump and tar's "levels" do. Except they backup everything from the previous lower number level. So if amanda stays at level 1 on Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/... each dump has all