Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 at 9:32am, Martin Hepworth wrote
>
>
>>However when I try and do an 'archive' backup set that should use the
>>'always-full' and 'always-fulltar' dump styles I get failures like the
>>following for all disks on the disklist even the local machine.
>>
>> sol /usr lev 0 FAILED [can't switch to incremental dump]
>>
>
> What exactly does your dumptype look like? What do you have for
> dumpcycle/runspercycle/tapecycle?
>
> This is what I use for our archival setup:
>
> dumpcycle 0 days # Can also be specified in dumptype
> runspercycle 1 # Doesn't matter
> tapecycle 1000 tapes # Always a new one..
>
> define dumptype always-full {
> global
> comment "Full dump of this filesystem always"
> program "GNUTAR"
> priority high
> compress none
> record no
> }
>
> Where global contains only 'index yes'. You want to set 'record no'
> otherwise the archive setup will interfere with incrementals on the daily
> setup.
>
>
nope still no luck.
here's my amanda.conf...
org "Archive" # your organization name for reports
mailto "root" # space separated list of operators at your site
dumpuser "amanda" # the user to run dumps under
inparallel 3 # maximum dumpers that will run in parallel
maxdumps 2 # maximum number of dumpers per client
netusage 6000 Kbps # maximum net bandwidth for Amanda, in KB per sec
dumpcycle 0 # the number of days in the normal dump cycle
runspercycle 1 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days
# (4 weeks * 5 amdump runs per week -- just
weekdays)
tapecycle 2000 tapes
bumpsize 20 Mb
bumpdays 1
bumpmult 4
etimeout 300
runtapes 1
tapedev "/dev/nsa0" # the no-rewind tape device to be used
rawtapedev "/dev/nrsa0" # the raw device to be used (ftape only)
changerdev "/dev/null"
define tapetype HPDLT {
comment "DLT1"
length 40960 mbytes
filemark 0 kbytes
speed 1407 kps
}
define dumptype global {
comment "Global definitions"
index yes
# record no
}
define dumptype always-full {
global
comment "Full dump of this filesystem always"
#compress none
compress server fast
priority high
dumpcycle 0
record no
}
define dumptype always-fulltar {
global
comment "Full dump of this filesystem always"
program "GNUTAR"
#compress none
compress server fast
priority high
dumpcycle 0
record no
}
