John and Paul, Thanks for your responses.
>>Sadly the Amanda 2.4.1 change log (fragment appended) shows
>>"strategy noinc" is not implemented yet (see below).
>John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>But it does appear to be in 2.4.2.
Great. I will try upgrading to 2.4.2.
>>Using "dumpcycle 0" I still see incrementals in the archive backup.
>Really?
Yes really, the appended amdump output shows incremental dumps.
>Under what circumstances? This is usually all I do to get an
>archive such as you're trying to do.
I have also appended the config. We have ~120Gb to dump, have an
18Gb holding disk and use software compression to dump to 12Gb
(native ie uncompressed) DDS3 DAT tapes.
>From: "Bort, Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 15:48:02 -0400
>Just to hazard a guess: You might have set dumpcycle 0 in one dumptype, and
>then used another. I set dumpcycle 0 at the beginning of the amanda.conf
>file, and all backups (for that configuration) always run level 0 backups.
>I'm using a beta of 2.4.2 that I've heard is similar to 2.4.1.
I can confirm that I set dumpcycle 0 (both globally and in the
dumptype). I will try upgrading to 2.4.2.
I have appended config and amdump report:
Julian
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Subject: archive AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR April 12, 2001
...
DUMP SUMMARY:
DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS
HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s
-------------------------- -------------------------------------- --------------
cedar / 1 2079 448 21.5 1:18 5.7 0:00 1789.7
cedar /export 2 FAILED --------------------------------------------
cedar /var 1 FAILED --------------------------------------------
cedar /var/mail 1 423039 192352 45.5 13:36 235.7 3:50 834.7
hazel / 0 86495 30880 35.7 0:40 768.3 0:57 544.9
hazel /export 4 25023 3392 13.6 2:14 25.4 0:04 878.4
hazel /export0 1 FAILED --------------------------------------------
hazel /export1 1 61663 32672 53.0 5:31 98.7 0:38 869.5
hazel /usr 2 1023 224 21.9 0:20 11.1 0:00 2276.0
hazel /var 3 22815 2112 9.3 0:46 46.2 0:02 862.0
u2 / 1 1663 352 21.2 0:45 7.8 0:00 1887.1
u2 /export 3 38527 2880 7.5 3:11 15.1 0:03 916.4
u2 /export0 4 426047 168384 39.5 16:07 174.2 3:18 850.3
u2 /export1 3 60735 29728 48.9 4:27 111.4 0:34 866.0
u2 /export2 1 3399999 1952640 57.4 94:01 346.2 38:03 855.5
u2 /export3 1 83039 24736 29.8 2:01 204.9 0:29 847.1
u2 /export4 1 FAILED --------------------------------------------
u2 /export5 2 640447 260352 40.7 16:49 257.9 N/A N/A
u2 /export6 0 10603423 9977792 94.1 304:58 545.3 N/A N/A
u2 /var 3 48735 3648 7.5 0:57 64.2 0:04 996.3
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bumpsize inf #try to stop incremental dumps (JRCB11-apr-01)
bumpmult 2 #factor by which bumpsize increases per level
dumpcycle 0 # Setting this to zero forces a full backup
each run
infofile "/var/adm/amanda/archive/curinfo"
inparallel 99 #ensure this not limiting
labelstr "archive[0-9]*"
logdir "/var/log/amanda/archive"
indexdir "/var/adm/amanda/archive/index"
mailto "backup"
maxdumps 6 # low else connection to u2 fails
netusage 10 mbps #Mbytes/s
org "archive"
tapedev "/dev/rmt/0bn" #bsd (see above), hardware compression off
tapetype DDS3 #tape params tuned with tapetype (JRCB
5-jun-00)
tapecycle 100 #at least 100, maybe more (JRCB 10-apr-01)
reserve 0 #use all holding-disk for level 0 dumps
holdingdisk sun3-6 {
directory "/dumps/archive"
chunksize inf #max file size is >> size of holding disk
}
#DUMPTYPE SECTION
define dumptype dcs {
# compress #use default (client fast)
dumpcycle 0 # Setting this to zero forces a full backup
each run
holdingdisk yes
index yes
record no #do not update /etc/dumpdates
}
#TAPETYPE SECTION
define tapetype DDS3 {
comment "HP C1537A: internal DDS3 DAT drive"
filemark 0 kbytes # integrated into data
length 11 gigabytes # 125 m tape (no hardware compression) (11Gb Amanda =
12Gb (HP))
speed 863 kbps # unused by amanda (@ 5-jun-00 JRCB)
}
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University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello St, Sheffield S1 4DP, UK
Phone +44 (0) 114-222-1851. Fax +44 (0) 114-222-1810
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