On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 at 12:30pm, John Oliver wrote > On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 03:27:11PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 at 10:39am, John Oliver wrote > > > > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:28:37PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > > > > dumpcycle 4 days > > > > > > > > Amanda will get a full backup of every disk list entry (DLE) at least once > > > > every four days. If you run backups M-Th, Monday is going to be a busy > > > > day... > > > > > > > > > runspercycle 4 > > > > > > > > You'll run amanda 4 times per dumpcycle > > > > > > Is it possible to make amanda spread the full backups out over the > > > course of the dumpcycle? > > > > That's the default course of action. > > Then why would Monday be a "busy day"?
Your dumpcycle is 4 days. By Monday night, it's been 3 days since the last backups on Friday night. Therefore, several filesystems are probably past the 4 day limit, and *must* get a level 0. Amanda doesn't understand weekends. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
