On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 02:58:16PM -0800, Jay Lessert wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 02:26:22PM -0800, John Oliver wrote: > > > Since we're seeing 18 fulls and 1 daily, it smells like you're dumping > > > a whole bunch of new DLE's on amanda at the same time? If so, you'll > > > probably be OK tonight, just don't put any more new DLE's in. > > > > "DLE"? > > "disklist entry". > > > I assume you mean filesystems to be backed up. > > No, amanda backs up DLE's, each of which may or may not comprise an > entire file system.
OK, got it. > > No, I haven't added any > > recently. > > Then you'll want to make sure you understand why Amanda decided to > do 17 fulls and 2 incrementals on a particular day; this would be > a rather un-Amandalike thing to do on a day when it knows it's > going to be chewing up 1/2 the tape on a single DLE, unless > there are extraordinary circumstances. Number of runs/dumpcycle > too short, maybe? I don't know. I did amlabel several more tapes yesterday. I've had eight tapes up until now. amanda runs five times per week, one tape per run. I just now changed runspercycle and tapecycle... I forgot about them yesterday. -- John Oliver, CCNA http://www.john-oliver.net/ Linux/UNIX/network consulting http://www.john-oliver.net/resume/ *** sendmail, Apache, ftp, DNS, spam filtering *** **** Colocation, T1s, web/email/ftp hosting ****
