On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 at 11:16am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > Friday two of my hosts had a lvl 0 dump. This morning when I checked the > status of the backups over the weekend I noticed that those same two hosts > ran a lvl 0 again today. I am curious as to why amanda would run two > level 0 dumps in three days.
Without knowing your exact dumpcycle/runspercycle settings, it's a little tough to guess. But, in general, amanda strives to keep the backups roughly the same size on each run. If there is very little activity (i.e. the level 1s will be small), amanda will promote disks which aren't due for level 0s yet in order to get more data on tape. In general, it's a good thing -- the more level 0s, the better. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
