* Sergei Shinkarev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20070122 15:06]: > Hi, > > I've been struggling trying to get Amanda to do incremental dumps. It > seems no matter what I try to do Amanda will always do a level 0. I've > looked through the log files and I there aren't any related warnings or > errors that I could see. The tapes I'm using (LTO-3-400) do have the > capacity to store all the level 0 dumps on one tape, however that takes > over 24 hours to finish dumping which prevents me from running nightly > backups. Below are the relevant portions of the config files, if anyone > has seen something similar before or has any ideas, I would greatly > appreciate it. > > --- > > ### Amanda config file > > org "icl" # your organization name for reports > > dumpcycle 28 # the number of days in the normal dump cycle > > #runspercycle 20 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days > > tapecycle 90 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation > # WARNING: don't use `inf' for tapecycle, it's > broken! > > bumpsize 20 Mb # minimum savings (threshold) to bump level 1 -> 2 > > bumpdays 1 # minimum days at each level > > bumpmult 4 # threshold = bumpsize * bumpmult^(level-1) > > runtapes 1 # number of tapes to be > used in a single run of amdump > > inparallel 10 > > dumporder "BTBTBTBTBT" # specify the priority order of each > dumper > # s -> smallest size > # S -> biggest size > # t -> smallest time > # T -> biggest time > # b -> smallest bandwitdh > # B -> biggest bandwitdh > # try "BTBTBTBTBTBT" if you are not > holding > # disk constrained > > netusage 9000 kbps # maximum net bandwidth for Amanda, in KB > per sec > > etimeout 600 # number of seconds per filesystem for > estimates. > > dtimeout 3600 # number of idle seconds before a dump is > aborted. > > reserve 30 # percent # This means save at least 30% of the > holding disk space for degraded > > columnspec > "Disk=1:35,OrigKB=1:12,OutKB=1:12,DumpTime=1:6,DumpRate=1:6,TapeTime=1:6,TapeRate=1:6" >
that's not sufficient (and looks ok at first sight) give us a DLE entry, ie the output of 'amadmin <conf> disklist <hostname> <disk>' jf
