--On Wednesday, January 19, 2005 00:02:36 +0100 "Erik P. Olsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, a newbie question. > > I think I have now managed to customise amanda and I am pretty confident > that I can now start taking back-ups of my system. > > One term that I thought I understood is the level set. Apparently level > 0 is a full back-up and level 1 is incremental, but what then is level 2 > (and up)? If it's in the docs, please tell me where I can find it. > Level Description ----- ----------- 0 a full backup (i.e., the entire filesystem or directory). 1 just the files that have changed since the last level 0 2 just the files that have changed since the last level 1 3 just the files that have changed since the last level 2 and so on through level 9, so levels 1-9 are all incrementals. Using more levels generally makes for smaller backups, but at the cost of needing to restore from more tapes (if you last backup was a level 5, you would potentionally need to use 6 tapes to restore it all [the level 0 plus each of levels 1-5]). Frank > -- > Regards, > Erik P. Olsen -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
