Amanda-Users

Re: no incremental backups when using gnu tar

2004-02-11 09:10:50
Subject: Re: no incremental backups when using gnu tar
From: Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
To: Madhvi Gokool <madhvin AT yahoo DOT com>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 15:07:38 +0100
Madhvi Gokool wrote:

[amanda@sa01 amanda]$ amadmin DailySet1 disklist localhost /etc/mrtg
line 7:
    host localhost:
        interface default
    disk /etc/mrtg:
        program "GNUTAR"
        priority 2
        dumpcycle 0
        maxdumps 1
        strategy NOINC
        compress NONE
        auth BSD
        kencrypt NO
        holdingdisk YES
        record YES
        index YES
        skip-incr NO
        skip-full NO

The skip-incr is set to NO -- should this be changed to YES???

Only if you want nothing instead of an incremental when amanda has
space constraints.

How big are your tapes?  Or do you make backups in degraded mode
to holdingdisk (hence your other question on the list)?

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