On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:29:08AM -0700, Carl D. Blake wrote: > On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 10:29, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 09:54:46AM -0700, Carl D. Blake wrote: > > > > This is an "i don't know, but consider this" type of comment. > > > > How would you do a recovery? > > > > amrecover requires a config and your Daily config knows nothing > > about the level 0 backup except their dates. It seems to me that > > it will not know what tape you need to load to get the level 0 > > starting point. > > > This is a good point. It looks like I would have to "know" which config > to use to get a particular file. In other words I would have to know > that a file changed since the last full backup and use the last Daily > tape rather than getting the file from the last full backup. However, > for a complete disaster recovery you almost always restore the last full > backup tape first and then do the last difference (level 1) tape.
BTW I forgot, amand will not do an incremental until a level 0 is done for that config. So I don't think your dailies could be just incrementals. Again, maybe, just maybe, with merged info/index files. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
