On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 05:44:07PM -0600, Frank Smith wrote:
> --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.
> 

Just one trivial thing, if a level is missing, say someone did
something silly like level 0, 1, 3, the level 3 is anything
changed since the last "higher" (numerically lower) level.

jl
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