Amanda-Users

Re: Differential backups

2007-01-30 10:24:58
Subject: Re: Differential backups
From: Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:04:10 -0500
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 04:05:48AM -0800, Yogesh Hasabnis wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Does AMANDA support differential backups? Can anybody
> provide me pointers about the terms "level 0 backup",
> "level 1 backup"......"level 9 backup" etc?
> 

Descibing it is easy.  A level 'N' is all changes since
the most recent dump of a level lower numerically than 'N'
Amanda only goes in single level steps (others may jump around)
So a level 4 is all changes since the last level 3.

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