--- Frank Smith <fsmith AT hoovers DOT com> wrote:

> 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.

Thanks for the reply. So if I only have one DLE, will
the full backup always take place on a particular day
and will only incremental backups be taken on the
remaining days? Or will it be handled in some
different way?

Thanks

Yogesh



 
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