--On Tuesday, May 27, 2003 14:48:39 -0500 "Martin, Jeremy" <jmartin AT gsi-kc DOT 
com> wrote:

I have amanda working ok backing the server up as well as another client. 
However I'm still not quite certain I understand how the restore process works.

I want to have one full backup every 7 days, so I understand that each day the 
"tape" (still just using a local folder to simulate tapes for now) would get 
about 1/7th of the data written to it + any incremental data. But I'm not sure how I can
determine which tapes I need to restore in the event that a restore is 
necessary.

Let's say I have been backing up the /usr folder and it has been slightly 
change every day for the past week. So I'd have to restore the backup from 7 
days ago, then from 6 days ago, then 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 days ago? Or does amanda 
have some way to search
for a given file name or folder name and it will then spit out which tape(s) 
I'd need to restore to get those files or that folder back?

Amanda keeps track of what is on which tape, so amrecover will tell you which 
tape(s) you
need and prompt you for them as they are needed.  Also, you probably won't end 
up with 7
backup levels but most likely just need two or three tapes since Amanda will 
fall back to
a lower level backup if too much has changed.

Frank

Apologies if this gets asked a lot, I've found answers to a number of other 
questions I had in the list archive but I couldn't figure out what terms to 
search for to find the answer to this.

_______________________
Jeremy Martin
Network Technician
http://www.gsi-kc.com
mailto:jmartin AT gsi-kc DOT com

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