Erik, Levels are doing to be explite in the "man dump" pages for your OS.
Amanda is a scheduler/driver that uses OS native tools for backups and the actual meaning of levels will be OS specific - in general, level 0 is a complete backup of a 'partition' (see Amanda "DLE", originally a partition but not necessarilly so since the ability to "dump" using "tar"), level 1 are changes to the partition since the level 0 was performed. A level 2 would be changes since the level 1 was performed. Levels and strategies for using them are a whole mindset unto themselves. See "Fibonacci series" for once such strategie. On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 12:02:36AM +0100, Erik P. Olsen 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. > > -- > Regards, > Erik P. Olsen > --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support (v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center (f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of Health Help Desk 518 473-0773
