On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:28:21AM +0530, Rohit wrote:
> Thanks guys for all your responses. I really appreciate it. Also, is there
> any good How-To available to get me started
> on this?

When you download the source see the "docs" directory.

> 
> Couple of doubts though..How does Amanda differentiate between
> FULL and Incremental backups? What exactly FULL and
> INC mean?

Full, aka level 0, is every file and directory.  Incrementals also
have levels, 1-9.  An incremental of level X is all files changed
since the last lower level backup.

> 
> Does it mean that Amanda will do FULL/INC backup of one or
> more shares specified on the servers based on its internal
> logic?

Here is a sample of a portion of my "amoverview" of recent backups.
You can see the levels it choose, errors (system down, network troubles)
and some "disklist entries" (DLE's) that I have specified never do
incrementals so there are blanks.  I nominally have a dumpcycle
(time between level 0's) of 1 week and do backups 6 times a week.


       date             09 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 10 10
host   disk             18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 01 02

butch  /                 0  2  3     0  1  1  1  1  1     0  0  1  2
butch  //tec/C           0  1  1     E  E  E  E  E  E     E  E  E  E
butch  //tec/D           1  1  0     E  E  E  E  E  E     E  E  E  E
butch  //tec/E           0  1  1     E  E  E  E  E  E     E  E  E  E
butch  /export           1  2  0     1  1  2  0  1  1     0  0  0  1
butch  /images           E  E  E     E  E  E  0                    0
butch  /opt              1  2  2     E  0  1  1  0  1     1  1  0  1
butch  /u                0  1  1     0  1  E  E  0  1     1  1  0  1
butch  /u2               2  3  4     4  0  1  0  1  1     1  1  1  0
butch  //winnie/C        1  1  0     1  1  1  0  1  1     0  0  0  1
butch  //winnie/D        1  1  E     E  1  1  0  1  1     1  1  E  0
butch  //winnie/E        0  1  1     0  1  0  1  1  1     0  1  1  1
butch  //winnie/F        0  1  1     0  1  1  1  1  1     0  1  0  1
butch  /var              0  2  2     0  1  1  1  0  1     1  0  0  1
butch  /w                0  1  1     0  1  1  1  2  2     0  0  0  1
butch  /w/InstalledPkg   0  1  1     0  1  1  1  1  1     0  0  1  1
butch  /w/Packages       0  1  1     0  1  1  1  1  1     0  0  0  1
butch  /w/tape8          2  0  1     E  1  1  0  1  1     0  1  1  0
butch  /w2               0  1  1     0  1  2  E  2  0     1  1  1  2
butch  StaticFS-1        0                    0                    0

Can you tell when "tec" went offline?  That is my laptop and I took
it with me to the SunNetwork conference.

> 
> The problem I have is this:
> I have a share on my NT server which houses users home
> directories aka (Z:) drive and all users outlook express
> mails and profiles are stored in their Z: drive in a
> specific direcory.
> 
> Using my custom scripts, I used to do FULL backups of users
> email directory (stored in their Z: drive) once in a week
> and do incrementals 3 days in a week.
> 
> Ditto for backing up their profiles stored on Z: drive.
> 
> But as of backing up linux servers go, I do either full or
> incremental for all the shares (and not directories within
> it)
> 
> Will Amanda able to do this? Or better?

You tell us, we already like it.

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