You might need to put 'dumpcycle 0' at the beginning of amanda.conf instead of inside a dumptype. (This is a guess. I put it at the beginning and it works there, but I haven't bothered to upgrade from version 2.4.2-19991216-beta1, because it 'ain't broke'.)
Levels are degrees of incremental-ness. Level 1 is all of the files that have changed since level 0, and level 2 is all of the files that have changed since level 1. A file system gets 'bumped' to a lower level when the space it would take at the higher level is needed for other backups. If you look at the planner (IIRC) debug file, it will show the estimated size of each backup at different levels and why it chose the levels it did. > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Van de Wiele [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 10:43 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: "incremental bumped to level x" incremental? I want full! > > > Hello list! > > My objective: to make a FULL backup on tape every weekday. If there is > data on the tape, I want it removed and/or overwritten by new data... > First of all, I'm using version 2.4.2p2 on a Linux server (Dell > PowerEdge) with kernel 2.4.16 > > my 'disklist' file contains: > > delta.eduline.be hda1 always-full > delta.eduline.be hda4 always-full > delta.eduline.be hda3 always-full > > > in my amanda.conf I have: > > define dumptype always-full { > global > comment "Full dump of this filesystem always" > program "GNUTAR" > compress none > index yes > priority high > dumpcycle 0 > } > > > The logs gave me this: > > NOTES: > planner: Incremental of delta.eduline.be:hda3 bumped to level 2. > planner: Incremental of delta.eduline.be:hda4 bumped to level 2. > > > Incremental? I don't want incremental backups, I want a FULL backup. > And what are these "levels" in combination with the incremental term? > > > Kind regards > > -- Tom Van de Wiele > > >
