On Thursday 18 July 2002 16:45, Mark Cooke wrote: >Sorry to sound thick but I'm not sure what to make of this comment > on my daily report from Amanda: > >NOTES: > planner: Full dump of idun:/home/mail specially promoted from 5 > days ahead. > taper: tape Daily-02 kb 223488 fm 14 [OK] > >This is the second day of a 6 day dumpcycle, running amdump every > day. The first day (yesterday, I'm still testing) done a Level 0 > backup and today done a level 1 except /home/mail, which was > marked as a level 0. > >Am I correct in thinking that as that directory contents has > changed so much it has brought the full dump forward for that > specific directory?
Generally speaking, no. As others who know more about that I will (probably) say, this is amanda doing its load balanceing, by adjusting the timing of the backups so that about the same amount of data will be backed up every night. Tonight it will probably advance another one or 2 level 0's that aren't quite due yet, tommorrow night another entry or 2 in your disklist will be the guest of honor, etc, etc. The idea is that sometime within the time limits of your 'dumpcycle', a level 0 will be done on every entry in the disklist. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.07% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
