Christoph Scheeder wrote: > Hi > this is very strange, > i have a few servers under linux using ext3 and gnutar with amanda > doing fine level1 and 2's. > I guess you may have a process on your server touching all your files > once a day, making tar thinking they where changed and for that > taking them into your level one backups. > Any chance for that posibility? > Christoph > > Helas, Stephan schrieb: >> Hello, >> >> I backup several unix and Linux Server without having trouble. but >> one redhat 7.3 server don't work that way. i got some strange >> problem by backup this linux server with ext3. i use normal >> configuration, but my incremental backup are as big as the full >> backup. for example i post some info: >> >> dumpcycle 7 days >> runspercycle 4 >> tapecycle 8 tapes >> >> ------------- snip --------------------------------- >> Current info for gt1webdev2 /export: >> Stats: dump rates (kps), Full: 5458.0, 3940.0, -1.0 >> Incremental: 1359.0, 4614.0, 5333.0 >> compressed size, Full: -100.0%,-100.0%,-100.0% >> Incremental: -100.0%,-100.0%,-100.0% >> Dumps: lev datestmp tape file origK compK secs >> 0 20021121 Tag02 1 11134710 11134710 2040 >> 1 20021127 Tag06 10 11143360 11143360 8198 >> >> Current info for gt1webdev2 /export_java: >> Stats: dump rates (kps), Full: 2665.0, 1298.0, 2416.0 >> Incremental: 3019.0, 2730.0, 2501.0 >> compressed size, Full: -100.0%,-100.0%,-100.0% >> Incremental: -100.0%,-100.0%,-100.0% >> Dumps: lev datestmp tape file origK compK secs >> 0 20021126 Tag05 4 3451500 3451500 1295 >> 1 20021127 Tag06 9 3451510 3451510 1143 >> ------------ snap ------------------------------------ >> >> as you can see, the filesize between level 0 and level 1 don't >> differ. >> >> now my question. is it a effect ob using ext3? can't ext3 handle the >> archive bit in the way that amanda use it? do i have to go back >> using ext2? >> >> >> Thx & Regards >> Stephan
One example for Files: [root@gt1webdev2 software]# ls -l insgesamt 66104 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 706573 Okt 8 10:38 ant-1.5.1-3jpp.noarch.rpm -rwxr--r-- 1 webuser nobody 602566 Nov 15 08:04 ant-optional-full-1.5.1-3jpp.noarch.rpm -rwxr--r-- 1 webuser nobody 25146816 Nov 16 15:42 j2sdk-1_3_1_04-linux-i586-rpm.bin -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 25150518 Nov 16 15:04 j2sdk-1_3_1_06-linux-i586.rpm.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2807094 Okt 11 2001 jakarta-ant-1.4.1-bin.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 468566 Okt 11 2001 jakarta-ant-1.4.1-optional.jar -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4313503 Okt 8 17:58 jakarta-tomcat-4.0.6.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5714133 Sep 23 12:34 jakarta-tomcat-4.1.12.tar.gz drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 16 16:07 test -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1043359 Nov 7 14:40 xalan-j2-2.4.1-1jpp.noarch.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 739585 Okt 25 20:20 xerces-j2-2.2.0-2jpp.noarch.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 739585 Okt 25 20:20 xerces-j2-2.2.0-2jpp.noarch.rpm.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16020 Nov 3 18:11 xml-commons-1.0-0.b2.2jpp.noarch.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 90268 Nov 3 18:11 xml-commons-apis-1.0-0.b2.2jpp.noarch.rpm search for files modified one week ago [root@gt1webdev2 software]# find . -mtime -7 [root@gt1webdev2 software]# one month ago [root@gt1webdev2 software]# find . -mtime -30 . ./ant-optional-full-1.5.1-3jpp.noarch.rpm ./xalan-j2-2.4.1-1jpp.noarch.rpm ./j2sdk-1_3_1_06-linux-i586.rpm.bin ./test ./xml-commons-apis-1.0-0.b2.2jpp.noarch.rpm ./xml-commons-1.0-0.b2.2jpp.noarch.rpm ./j2sdk-1_3_1_04-linux-i586-rpm.bin if i use amrecover to look at the date of last backup i got this: amrecover> ls 2002-11-27 . 2002-11-27 ant-1.5.1-3jpp.noarch.rpm 2002-11-27 ant-optional-full-1.5.1-3jpp.noarch.rpm 2002-11-27 j2sdk-1_3_1_04-linux-i586-rpm.bin 2002-11-27 j2sdk-1_3_1_06-linux-i586.rpm.bin 2002-11-27 jakarta-ant-1.4.1-bin.zip 2002-11-27 jakarta-ant-1.4.1-optional.jar 2002-11-27 jakarta-tomcat-4.0.6.tar.gz 2002-11-27 jakarta-tomcat-4.1.12.tar.gz 2002-11-27 test/ 2002-11-27 xalan-j2-2.4.1-1jpp.noarch.rpm 2002-11-27 xerces-j2-2.2.0-2jpp.noarch.rpm 2002-11-27 xerces-j2-2.2.0-2jpp.noarch.rpm.1 2002-11-27 xml-commons-1.0-0.b2.2jpp.noarch.rpm 2002-11-27 xml-commons-apis-1.0-0.b2.2jpp.noarch.rpm all files were backuped this night. i don't know how this work togehter. can i see, in wich way amanda decides if a file was modified since last backup or not?
