Re: Backup problem

[James Thorne]

Hello Angie,

Can you post the changed disklist again? Could you also post the email report for the backup? It generated an email report, didn't it? What's the output of 'amcheck'?

These things may help.

Cheers,

James.

Angie Yee wrote:

Hi James,

I have tried always-full instead of nocomp-user for the disklist last night.
However, when I check the backup tape this morning, that is no backup action
actually taken last night.  It means all the data has not been backup last
night.  Would you please help?  Thanks.

BR,
Angie

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Thorne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Angie Yee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 2:32 PM
Subject: Re: Backup problem

Angie,

The last item on each line of the disklist specifies the dump type to
use for the filesystem.  These dump types are defined in amanda.conf.
Have a look at the comments in amanda.conf to see all the options.  The
format for the disklist is:

  <host> <filesystem> <dump type>

So, to backup the /home/users filesystem on 'myhost', using
'nocomp-user' you would use:

  myhost /home/users nocomp-user

as the entry in the disklist.

'nocomp-user' does not have the line:

  dumpcycle 0

'dumpcycle' within a dump type definition tells amanda the maximum
number of days between full dumps of the filesystem.  A value of zero
causes a full backup of the filesystem to be performed every time.

You could, for example, modify 'nocomp-user' to read as follows and
leave your disklist as it is:

define dumptype nocomp-user {
   comp-user
   comment "Non-root partitions on slow machines"
   index
   program "GNUTAR"
   compress none

      dumpcycle 0  # <----- force full backups

}

Angie Yee wrote:

What's mean by "nocomp-user" in disklist then?
Please advise.  Thanks.

BR,
Angie


----- Original Message -----
From: "James Thorne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Angie Yee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: Backup problem

From my understanding, you should be able to do something like the

following:

 fs3 /vol0 always-full
 fs3 /vol1 always-full

The dump type 'always-full' is defined in your amanda.conf already:

define dumptype always-full {
  global
  comment "Full dump of this filesystem always"
  compress none
  priority high
  dumpcycle 0
}

The 'dumpcycle 0' line tells amanda to always do a full dump of the
filesystem.  This dump type does not use compression.  We have a new
dump type here which uses compression and does a full dump, defined as
follows in amanda.conf:

 define dumptype high-tar-full {
   high-tar
   comment "high priority, full dump with compression"
   compress client fast
   priority high
   dumpcycle 0
 }

This makes use of 'high-tar', also in your amanda.conf already.

You ould then put this in your disklist:

 fs3 /vol0 high-tar-full
 fs3 /vol1 high-tar-full

You will need gzip and tar installed on your machines.

James.

Angie Yee wrote:

Hi James,

Thanks for your prompt reply.

The dumptypes are :

fs3 /vol0 nocomp-user
fs3 /vol1 nocomp-user

Would you please advise how to force amanda to do the full back-up

every

night?

Thanks.

BR,
Angie

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