--On Wednesday, January 19, 2005 00:02:36 +0100 "Erik P. Olsen" <erik AT epo 
DOT dk> wrote:

> Hi, a newbie question.
> 
> I think I have now managed to customise amanda and I am pretty confident
> that I can now start taking back-ups of my system.
> 
> One term that I thought I understood is the level set. Apparently level
> 0 is a full back-up and level 1 is incremental, but what then is level 2
> (and up)? If it's in the docs, please tell me where I can find it. 
> 

Level  Description
-----  -----------
0      a full backup (i.e., the entire filesystem or directory).
1      just the files that have changed since the last level 0
2      just the files that have changed since the last level 1
3      just the files that have changed since the last level 2

and so on through level 9, so levels 1-9 are all incrementals.

Using more levels generally makes for smaller backups, but at the
cost of needing to restore from more tapes (if you last backup was
a level 5, you would potentionally need to use 6 tapes to restore
it all [the level 0 plus each of levels 1-5]).

Frank

> -- 
> Regards,
> Erik P. Olsen



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