Ah, that's it - thank you. I have record set to 'no' while testing, and I haven't created amandates yet. I'll fix this and continue with my test.
David M -----Original Message----- From: Joshua Baker-LePain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 10:42 AM To: David Meissner Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: tar and level 0,1 backups On Mon, 6 May 2002 at 10:16am, David Meissner wrote > What is odd is that it looks as though there is no difference between a > level 0 and a level 1 backup. On the reports that are emailed each night, > the same amount of data is written to tape for both the level 0 and the > level 1 backup for all of the filesystems. I checked this by going through a > table of contents for one of the level 1 backups, and it seems to be > identical to a complete level 0 backup. > > Is this a side effect of using GNU tar instead of dump? Or is there some No. > other reason why amanda is writing full backups but calling them level 1? Do you have 'record yes' set in the dumptypes? Does the amanda user have permission to write to /etc/amandates on the client? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
