Someone recently recommended "Unix Backup & Recovery" by W. Curtis Preston
to me.  I am just now wading through the amanda section so I cannot tell you
if it's any good.  But, there certainly is a lot of material there!

-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Heskett [mailto:gene_heskett AT iolinc DOT net]
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 12:29 PM
To: Ralph Bearpark; jlb17 AT duke DOT edu
Cc: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: Re: Amanda Backup Strategy


On Wed February 26 2003 11:16, 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?

Amanda shouldn't have to deal with that, so the normal "startup" 
procedure is to only give amanda enough acive DLE's to fill a tape 
each night until all have been done, thereby giving amanda some 
help on the initial "balance" settings.  But, if the tapetype is 
properly set, I don't *think* amanda will take a chance on hitting 
EOT as it will delay enough to assure it won't hit EOT.  I've seen 
that in my email from amanda a time or 2.

>(If this is all documented somewhere, please tell me where and
> I'll stop asking my stupid questions! :-))

The only really stupid question is the one not asked. ;-)

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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