on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:39:36 EDT Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 10:24:39PM +0200, Charles Stroom wrote: > > > > > > > > In the above output, that means that you did not > > > run any amdump on the 4th day of the dumpcycle, > > > and expects that the next cycle will be the same. > > > > > > > Dumps are done daily in principle, but actually, 3 days ago, > > many DLEs failed to backup with the > > FAILED [too many dumper retry: "[request failed: timeout waiting for ACK]"] > > message. So, that may be the reason, although it would be a bit > > odd that because of a failure to do a backup, no backup is scheduled > > in 7 days. > > "no backup is scheduled in 7 days" > > You state that too literally. > > Amanda does not schedule the backups, you, the administrator does, > probably via crontab. > > You don't really believe that if you run amdump on that day, > amanda will refuse to do backups do you? > > It is just that there were no level 0's done 7 days before that > empty date (your dumpcycle) or all were since promoted and done > again. Thus there is nothing due to get a level 0 for that date.
Yes, you are right, I did not mean to say that no amdump will run, but that nothing will be backed up by amdump. But your email prompted me to reread the amadmin manpage, and I missed the "full" in the "balance: Display the distribution of full backups throughout the dump schedule." Things have cleared up. Thanks Charles
