>> Can you explain me what you mean by >> 'spread the fulls and incrementals around' ? > > For a simple case, assume you back up 7 filesystems that are each > about the same size and have about the same amount of changes each day, > and Amanda runs 7 days a week with a dumpcycle of 7 days. > You would probably end up with one full backup and 6 incrementals > on each day's tape, so each day about the same amount of tape would be > used. Even when you add filesytems or have unusual amounts of > data changes, Amanda will postpone some full dumps, change dump > levels, and move ahead other full dumps in order to keep the tape > size about the same so you won't run out of tape on those days. > With the more traditional 'full on weekend, incremental weekdays' > approach you end up with a huge run doing the fulls, and very small runs > during the weekdays, so most of your tape capacity goes unused (except > in your case where you do appends to one tape, but that > has other issues).
Franck, i understood how Amanda is working now ! :) But i'd like to know how to do if i want to recover my data ? I mean there will be some full dumps, some incremental,... what's the hell? Thanks, -- Nicolas CARTRON
