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.
