At Sun, 3 Oct 2010 14:19:50 -0500 "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dus...@zmanda.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Robert Heller <hel...@deepsoft.com> wrote: > > One of the downsides of using a very *stable* Linux distro with long > > term stable support. Â OTOH, it avoids the fun of re-installing > > everything every 6-12 months and then spending a couple of months > > getting all of the settings tweaked just right... > > Sure, I understand - I just can't offer you much help in that case :) Actually, you did provide quite alot of help (thanks!). Having some insight into the gory inner workings actually helped -- it helped me understand what Amanda was upto and why it is doing what it does. From another post I got the idea of have two configs (with a shared common config), one for archival fulls (run manually, once a month) and one for dailyincr (run from cron). The archival fulls use large tapes (4.3gig -- just right for burning to DVD-Rs) and the dailyincr use smaller tapes (1.075gig -- could burn sets of 4 to DVD-Rs, if I feel there is a need to), both use upto 4 tapes/run. The archival's disk list has everything set to 'only-full' (skip-incr=yes) and the dailyincr has only the disks that need incrs with stategy=incronly. Certain disks don't get/need incrementals: /, /boot, and /usr get monthly fulls only -- they are pretty much 'static' file systems. So far, I *seem* to be getting something like what I want (not perfect, but close enough) -- time will tell for sure. > > Dustin > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows hel...@deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/
