On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 12:02:54PM +0100, Niall O Broin wrote: > I asked about this the other day and it transpired that I didn't have record > yes in my dumptype, so that explained that, or so I thought. However, I now > do have record yes in my global dumptype but still level 1 dumps are of the > full filesystems.
Correct. Last night, all your filesystems thought they'd never had a level 0 dump (since none had been recorded), so level 1 included everything. As each filesystem does (and records) a level 0 dump, it will start doing incremental level 1s. After a full dumpcycle, things should be behaving as you expect. > Another thought just occured to me - as I wasn't recording, why did amanda > ever do level 1 backups ? Because it wasn't time for a level 0. Full (lvl 0) vs. incrmental (lvl. 1/2) is controlled by the dumpcycle and ensuring that level 0s are done often enough to always have one within the last dumpcycle. If a lvl 0 isn't needed, a lvl 1 or 2 will be done instead regardless of how big the dumps are estimated at.
