On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 15:57 +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: > On 2006-03-13 15:45, Thomas Widhalm wrote: > > Hi! > > > > We have a rather old workstation running tao 1 (is RHEL 3) with amanda > > amanda-2.4.4p1-0.3E.1 . Since this is too old for vdisks, we just backup > > to the holding disk. But it makes lots of level 0 backups. Some > > filesystems have level 0 just every day! > > Vtapes (vdisks as you call them) exist since 2.4.3, so that should > not be a problem. For the configuration see: > > http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/File_driver
Sorry, for misspelling. I really have to apologize. I was so sure, they existed just in later versions. And I just couldn't find the driver for vtapes. Could it be, that this is to be installed sperately? > > > > Is there a way to make level incemental backups more often? Making more > > fulls throughout the backup cycle is ok since we got enough space, but > > not that many! > > What is your schedule? (dumpcycle, etc.) dumpcycle 8 days. amanda run from a script within crontab every day. > Are these dumps promoted frequently? Yes. Every day > How/when do you remove the older holdingdisk backups? There is a procedure within our script, which deletes any directory named after a date, older than 9 days with "rm -fr" > > I never have run for an extended period with backups to holdingdisk > only. Maybe there is some logic in Amanda that thinks you do not > have a full backup to tape, and thus creates a level 0 again. This could be it. If I get vtapes running, I could prove that. Maybe there is another way for that. I can live with the "Tape error" it tells me every day. Thanks anyway for the answer. Regards, Thomas > > -- ***************************************************************** * Thomas Widhalm Unix Administrator * * University of Salzburg ITServices (ITS) * * Systems Management Unix Systems * * Hellbrunnerstr. 34 5020 Salzburg, Austria * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] +43/662/8044-6774 * * gpg: 6265BAE6 * * http://www.sbg.ac.at/zid/organisation/mitarbeiter/widhalm.htm * *****************************************************************
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