On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:52:18AM +0100, Gilles Bourcy wrote:
> Hello
> 
> First of all, thanks to Joshua Baker-LePain for his answer. It helped me 
> well; now
> Amanda is correctly configured, and runs properly.
> 
> My problem now is that I don't fully understand the notion of "backup 
> level". And it seems
> important to correctly understand it for amrecover, or more simply for a 
> general understanding
> of how Amanda works.
> 
> Can you help me ?

>From what I understand, a level i backup is an incremental backup in
comparison the the last level i-1 backup.

Level 0 = full backup
Level 1 = differences from last level 0 backup
Level 2 = differences from last level 1 backup
etc, etc.

I guess someone will correct me if I did understand it wrong :-)

Raph


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