Author: Haroon Anwar <hilarious_nick AT yahoo.com DOT au>
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 12:33:26 +1000 (EST)
Hi, I am having problem with incremental backups. Every thing is working fine. I force full backup of all my servers on Saturday. From Sunday to Friday I am taking incremental backup. It is working f
Author: Matt Hyclak <hyclak AT math.ohiou DOT edu>
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 23:56:49 -0400
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 12:33:26PM +1000, Haroon Anwar enlightened us: First, you're really fighting what amanda was designed to do...you're trying to make "her" do what you want instead of letting h
Author: Haroon Anwar <hilarious_nick AT yahoo.com DOT au>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:41:23 +1000 (EST)
Hi Matt, Thanks for you reply. Just got a question, what if I mount filesystems with the "noatime" options so that when it accesses a file it does not update the atime on the inode? What will amanda
Amanda (or more accurately, dump or tar) doesn't care about atime. I have atime updates disabled on my NFS servers to improve performance (with the tradeoff of loss of information on how recently fil
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:32:38 -0400
Bad. Very bad. Awfull even.. You aren't understanding the theory behind amandas scheduler at all. Amanda must have a full backup in her database within dumpcycle days history in order to be able to d
You mean, if I edit a file but the size doesn't change it need not be backed up in an incremental? Hardly. Size is the determining factor, nor should it be. atime is not the basis for determing the n
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