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flush full dumps only?

2004-03-17 16:07:58
Subject: flush full dumps only?
From: Jonathan Dill <jfdill AT jfdill DOT com>
To: amanda users <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:04:54 -0500
Has anyone tried the approach of only flushing full dumps and leaving incremental dumps on disk? I think that this would have roughly the same effect as doing full dumps out of cycle, but I have not had luck so far with the out-of-cycle approach. I think that it should be fairly easy to script, create a parallel directory tree and temporarily move out the incremental dumps that you don't want to flush, for example.

The idea would be to leave all of the incremental dumps available on a huge disk, but keep all of the full dumps on tape, so at most one tape should be required for any restore. Since the full dumps take up the most space, clearing them out should leave more space for a longer history of incrementals. At least that is the idea.

--jonathan

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