On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 08:32:10PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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. >
But as I recall, it does not segregate them by day. If I do the segregation (as I like to do) then amanda doesn't know to delete them from their new directories. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
