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Re: How to Partial full backup

2006-05-29 06:32:04
Subject: Re: How to Partial full backup
From: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
To: Rajeh kuri <rajeshkuri AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 06:21:09 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 29 May 2006 at 2:52pm, Rajeh kuri wrote

I modified the "amanda.conf"  file for following parameters

dumpcycle 10 days
runspercycle 10

As per my understanding the backup data is devided into ten equal
parts and every amdump run will backup the some ( 1/10th of entire

That's not exactly true. Amanda strives (very hard) to do a level 0 of each DLE (disklist entry) once per dumpcycle, and then do incrementals on the other runs. It doesn't automatically divide DLEs.

data) data. When i restore the data after running First time "amdump"
i get full backup.
And when i run "amdump" 2nd time it will not backup any thing if
nothing has been changed in backup directory.

I'm guess you only have 1 DLE.

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

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