On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 04:05:00PM +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote: > 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! > > ... > > > 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.
There was an "etc." up there. Presumably your runspercycle is also 8? > > > 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" Does this keep your index dir growing; or do you trim that too? Have you tried resetting some parameters like bumpsize, bumpmult, and bumpdays? They may have an affect on your situation. A workaround would be to use a dumptype that does no fulls, or strategy incrmental only. Then daily run a cron script that selects the DLE's you want full dumps of and issues an amadmin "force" command to cause a level 0 dump the next run. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
