On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 07:06:55 -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> Separate but related question.
>
> Let's say I have a very recent full (level 0) backup of /home. If I
> split up my /home into two or three DLEs, will Amanda recognize that it
> already has a level-0 backup, and then take level-1 backups of the new
> DLEs? Or will amanda see the new DLEs as "completely new" and require
> a first-time level-0 backup?
The latter. Incremental backups (and also "exclude"/"include"
processing) involve a "multi-layer" cordination between Amanda and the
backup program, and there's no mechanism in there to detect that a new
DLE happens to be a subset of some other DLE, or whatever. So Amanda
has to treat each DLE separately, and start from scratch for a newly
create one.
Nathan
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