Yogesh Hasabnis wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> As per the AMANDA faqs, "AMANDA spreads full backups
> along the dumpcycle, so you wont' have any full-only
> or incremental-only runs." 
> 
> What I understand from this is that if you have
> multiple filesystems on multiple hosts to be backed up
> in an AMANDA dumpcycle, AMANDA will take care of
> spreading the full backups of different
> areas/filesystems on different days so that it is not
> overloaded on weekends for doing the full backups
> (Correct me if I am wrong). However in my case, I have
> only one area or one filesystem on one host to be
> backed up. Data created by all users which needs to be
> backed up is stored by them under one directory on a
> central file server, which will be backed up by
> AMANDA. Now in this case, how will AMANDA spread the
> full and the incremental backup load (because it has
> only one area to be backed up in the whole dumpcycle)?

Yes, if you have only one DLE Amanda obviously can't spread
its full dump over several days.  You could use tar instead
of dump, and make each subdirectory a separate DLE, then the
fulls could be spread out.
   If the you do that, you might want to also leave the top
level directory as a DLE with an exclude file listing the
subdirectories that are separate DLEs.  That way if a new
subdirectory is created, and you forget to update your config,
the new subdirectory will still be backed up.

Frank
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Yogesh  
> 
> 
>  
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