On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:42:12AM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> Look at the various bump* options in amanda.conf -- they control when
> amanda bumps an incremental up a level. Theoretically it can go to 9
> (just like the backup tools), but there's an increasingly high requirement
> for backup image size savings to do the bumps.
Is there such a limit in Amanda anywhere?
For example, dump from Linux's e2fstools support arbitrary integers as
dump levels. From the manpage:
"A level number above 0, incremental backup, tells dump to copy all files
new or modified since the last dump of a lower level. The default level
is 9. Historically only levels 0 to 9 were usable in dump, this
version is able to understand any integer as a dump level."
My Amandas don't ever get above a 6, and my predecessor's bump
settings limited runs to level 3, so I'm not saying level 897125
backups are a good idea ::-)
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Ross Vandegrift
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"The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who
make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians
have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine
man in the bonds of Hell."
--St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37
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