Got that thanks.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul Bijnens [mailto:paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com]
>Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 10:27 AM
>To: Gavin Henry
>Cc: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
>Subject: Re: I changed something in my disklist
>
>
>Gavin Henry wrote:
>
>>>You switch from gnutar to dump. Gnutar can do subdirectories, dump
>>>cannot do.
>>>Add "program GNUTAR" to the dumptype "nocomp-high" (and better name
>>>it "high-tar" if that one does not already exist).
>>>
>>
>>
>> I added the program bit. There is already a high-tar
>section, but what do
>> you mean "name it"
>
>It's up to you how to name a dumptype. But it is very confusing
>if the name doesn't match what it does.
>If you have dumptypes named "high" and "high-tar", then the name
>suggests that "high-tar" is similar to "high" but using program GNUTAR.
>
>It happens now that amanda has in the example directory a lot of
>dumptypes. Many people copy the example amanda.conf, and modify it
>to their needs. In the example there is "comp-high" and a
>"nocomp-high"
>and the only difference is the compression property.
>The example also show a different naming scheme, where, the priority
>is expressed by 'root' or 'user' (root filesystems don't
>change as much,
>and you can always reinstall from a CD, his has lower priority for
>backups, whereas user filesystems contain more uniq data, which is of
>higher priority to backup). So the names invented for dumptypes are
>"root-tar", "user-tar", "high-tar" (for even more important data),
>all three without compression, and there are two similar with
>compression "comp-root-tar" and "comp-user-tar".
>
>It are only examples, it's up to you to define your own.
>If you blindly copy the examples and then add 'program "GNUTAR"' to
>"high-tar", then the next person looking at the config with the 5
>dumptypes will probably get very confused.
>
>To really confuse (or to show off) you could name a dumptype:
>
>define dumptype legato {
> ...
>}
>
>And then show the disklist to your manager if you want a larger budget.
>
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