Hi !
I'm fairly new to amanda and am stuck with a problem setting up my dumps: I'm using
the 'starttime' dumptype parameter to delay one dump to sort of force it to be the
last one. That's because I want to backup the amanda database and tar snapshot files
to the same tape (with indexing turned off) to keep it all together in one place (or
rather tapes ;-) for easy restoring (btw, the online chapter of the unix backup &
restore book states incorrectly that this 'starttime' is relative to the amdump start
time, but I think I'm not the first one to stumble over it).
This works as expected as long as all dumps fit into the holding disk(s) as is the
case with levels >=1. But unfortunately when doing a full dump one of partitions is
much too big to fit into the holding disk and is dumped directly to tape. In this
situation the dump of that big partition is delayed until _after_ the run of the
delayed amanda database dump.
As far as I understand it (and could verify it with the help of the sources) this is
the designed behaviour as the smaller dumps are preferred over the bigger ones and
direct dumps to tape (due to 'no-diskspace') are only done, when all delayed dumps
have finished. Is this correct and if so, is there any other
trick/configuration/whatever that helps me achieve my goal ?
What is everybody else doing with their tar incremental snapshot files which are
needed for a correct restore ?
Thanks a lot for any hints & help!
Urban
