On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 at 11:16am, Ralph Bearpark wrote

> > 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?

Yep.  But, when it does that, you'll get big fat warnings such as:

FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
  $CLIENT $DISK lev 1 FAILED [dumps way too big, must skip incremental 
dumps]

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University