On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 10:59 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > 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?
Set to 0, so it is 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. Thanks. I will search for these. > > 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. This is a rather good idea. If nothing else works out, I will try this for sure. Thanks. > -- ***************************************************************** * 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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