On Wednesday 29 September 2004 12:22, Jon LaBadie wrote: >On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 10:53:32AM -0500, Jason Miller wrote: >> Forgot to include the amanda-users in my reply to Gaby incase >> someone had other ideas. >> >> >> Gaby, >> Not certain if there is a way to stop Amanda from dumping them >> out and honestly it didn't bug me so what I did was setup a cron >> job to clean the directory out for me once a week to keep it down. >> That way if something does break I at least have some output of >> the debugs to reference since sometimes we don't check our backup >> solution on a daily basis but I do try to at least twice a week. >> The script I have setup looks something like below, this is on >> Redhat 9.0 set in my /etc/cron.weekly folder as a script with >> execute permissions. You could set that daily if you liked or >> monthly even. > >A slight variation; I prefer to have each run's debug files together >in a single directory. Thus each day, if there are any debug files >from a recent run, I make a subdirectory "DBG-MMDD". The files are >moved into the subdirectory. The script then checks how many > "DBG-*" directories there are and retains only the N most recent.
Amanda is supposed to do that for you Jon. Its supposed to delete any files associated with a tape thats being over-written, so it keeps "tapecycle" worth of all that & then kills them. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
