Erik,

Levels are doing to be explite in the "man dump" pages for your OS.

Amanda is a scheduler/driver that uses OS native tools for backups and
the actual meaning of levels will be OS specific - in general, level 0
is a complete backup of a 'partition' (see Amanda "DLE", originally a
partition but not necessarilly so since the ability to "dump" using
"tar"), level 1 are changes to the partition since the level 0 was 
performed. A level 2 would be changes since the level 1 was performed.

Levels and strategies for using them are a whole mindset unto themselves.
See "Fibonacci series" for once such strategie.

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 12:02:36AM +0100, Erik P. Olsen 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. 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Erik P. Olsen
> 
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