On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 at 5:24pm, Vicki Stanfield wrote

> I think what I am really talking about is the dumptype. I have the ones 
> I listed defined. I think I might be confusing them with priority. I 
> suppose the dumptype could only mean level of compression. But then I 
> need more information about how Amanda decides what to back up when. 
> I'll look back to the amanda.org site.

Every DLE is backed up every night.  The level depends not on the dumptype 
(unless you've specified always-full or something like that) but on 
dumpcycle and runspercycle.

dumpcycle=max amount of time before full (level 0) backups
runspercycle=number of 'amdump' runs per dumpcycle

You'll also need to coordinate these with tapecycle, which is the number 
of tapes you'll let amanda use.  Generally you'll want 
tapecycle>=1.5*runspercycle for error protection.  Note also that all of 
the above assumes runtapes=1.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University