Re: Partial full backup configuration for amanda

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 09:48:07AM -0700, silpa kala wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Thanks for this information. I gone through the all
> the threads related to the Partial Full backup
> configuration for amanda. 
> 
> Partial full backup is happening based on the DLE
> entries instead of memory occupied for all DLEs.That
> means If one DLE happens to contain 50% of all data,
> then one day Amanda must do all that complete DLE at
> once (and probably not schedule anything else for a
> full dump).  Amanda will not divide the DLE itself.
> 
> I seen sometime back amstatus is showing the keyword
> "PARTIAL". Is it referring to Partial Full bakup. I
> forgot what configuration was done. Please check
> whether the following configuration is proper for
> Partial Full backup.
> 

NO, it is NOT proper for a "Partial Full Backup"

This is because, as others have already said,

  "amanda does not do partial full backups"


Each DLE receives either a full or an incremental backup.

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