On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 03:47:51PM -0500, Vicki Stanfield wrote:
> I am using amanda to back up my servers. I have the following situation:
> 
> There is about 42G of data to be backed up on one particular machine. 
> This data is mostly static data in a directory structure which creates a 
> new directory whenever 1000 files are in the current directory and 
> numbers the new directory incrementally.  It looks like this:
> 
> /project/newarchive/0 contains files 0-999
> /project/newarchive/1 contains files 1000-1999
> /project/newarchive/1 contains files 2000-2999
> etc.
> 
> The previous directories are necessary for the program to run 
> successfully but will remain static once the next directory is created. 
> I need a backup solution that is appropriate for this. What is 
> appropriate for this situation?

Wouldn't the standard solution be appropriate here?

I presume you do want an occassional full backup of even the static data.
For the incrementals, only things which change (I guess files added) are
backed up.  As long as the files haven't changed since the last higher
level dump (lower numerically) then those files will not appear in the
incrementals.

You may want to play with bumpdays and bumpmultiplier to ensure you get
several dump levels between level 0 dumps.

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