I'm not having any problems with amanda, but the results do seem 
'over-the'top' for my needs, which leads me to wonder whether I need to 
change some parameters.

At the moment there are three DLEs.  One is a backup of the whole /home with a 
few exceptions, and that is quite big, around 21GB.  The other two are 
relatively small, less than 1GB each.  The amount of data that changes in a 
day is quite small.  The DLEs are set to a 4-day rotation, but in practice I 
am seeing level 0 backups almost every other day, for all of them.

It would seem reasonable, to me, based on the small amount of changes, to have 
a level0 weekly, for all of them, I think.

There are other areas that I haven't been including, but intend to.  These 
consist of home video, so contain a few large files in each directory.  These 
do not change at all, so only new material would need to be backed up.  I'm 
thinking that maybe I should comment out everything else and run a backup on 
the video directories only when new material is added, then comment out the 
video DLEs and continue with normal ones afterwards.  Would that be sensible?

I did wonder if it was possible to define a completely separate set of 
parameters for these video directories, using a monthly rotation, say, but I 
get the impression that that's not possible.

I'd be glad of any advice, hints and tips, for tackling these issues.

Anne

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