Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 08:46:05AM -0500, Jim Summers wrote:
Hello List,
I am experiencing an odd behavior from amanda. I have a client that I have
been backing up for a couple of years now. A while back, I noticed that it
was doing multiple level 0's on one DLE within one backup cycle. It
stopped for a while but then began doing it again a couple of months ago.
The pattern seems to be, when it does a level 0, then it will do another
level 0 the next night, possibly a third one the night after the second.
Then it will go back to incrementals. It does take a while to complete the
level 0 and I am wondering if that may be throwing things off for the
planner.
I recall a while ago I had an unbalanced set of DLEs. A couple quite
large, relative to my daily "average" and a high percentage of a single
tape, and a number of very small DLEs. Each of the large DLEs seemed
to get its level 0 on the same day every dumpcycle. On the days there
was no large level 0 to do, amanda seemed to fill in with lots of small
level 0s. This caused it to do level 0s multiple times during a dumpcycle
for the small DLEs. Maybe you are seeing the same behavior?
You can set maxpromoteday in a dumptype if you don't want your DLE to be
promoted too often.
Jean-Louis
