On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:09:33PM -0800, bao wrote:
> 
> 1. If I want to do a full dump of the entire selected folder every week, 
> and incremental dumps every other days (1 full, 6 inc. per week), does 
> it mean I have to rely on amanda in choosing what to do with load 
> balancing??
> 

Yes. This is one advantage Amanda has over commercial utilities.
She does all the scheduling and very well. You can force backups
if you want with amadmin <config> force <host> <fs>.
See manpage of amadmin.

> 2. I read somewhere (which I can't find where and can't remember 
> exactly) that for full dumps or for tapeless backup, holding disk should 
> be set to no. When I set this to no, amanda complains that:
> [can't dump no-hold disk in degraded mode]
> 
> Please tell me what this means.

This is usually bad advice, because you loose all parallism of Amanda
and its ability to keep the tape streaming.  The only exception i can
think of is if you are backing exactly one machine to the file output
driver, using no holding disk makes sense.

  Ciao
    Dietmar

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