On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 03:47:51PM -0500, Vicki Stanfield wrote:
> 
> P.S. I think I asked before but didn't get an answer. Is there a source 
> for an explanation of the different priorities of backups. I have the 
> following defined from an inherited amanda.conf file:
> 
> always-full (obvious)
> comp-low-tar
> comp-med-tar
> comp-high-tar
> low-tar
> med-tar
> high-tar
> comp-low-dump
> comp-med-dump
> comp-high-dump
> low-dump
> med-dump
> high-dump
> 
> The explanations in the amanda.conf are insufficient. I need to know 
> what decisions amanda makes when determining how often to back up each 
> dumptype.

A good additional place to read is the man pages.
Under priority this appears:

     priority "string"
          Default:  medium.  When there is no tape to  write  to,
          Amanda will do incremental backups in priority order to
          the  holding  disk.   The  priority  may  be   high(2),
          medium(1), low(0) or a number of your choice.

So the difference appears important only when saving ONLY to holding disk.
Then you can define which come earlier or later incase the holding disk
fills.

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