On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 08:32:16AM -0500, Brandon Metcalf wrote: > I recently changed my config from > > dumpcycle 4 weeks > runspercycle 20 > tapecycle 25 tapes > > to > > dumpcycle 2 weeks > runspercycle 12 > tapecycle 50 tapes > > backups are working fine, but I'm confused by the following output > which is just an example of one device: > > $ amadmin DailySet1 find quercus sda8 > > date host disk lv tape or file file part status > 2009-04-23 quercus sda8 0 DailySet1-04 5 -- OK > 2009-04-24 quercus sda8 1 DailySet1-05 5 -- OK > 2009-04-25 quercus sda8 0 DailySet1-06 5 -- OK > 2009-04-28 quercus sda8 0 DailySet1-07 6 -- OK > 2009-04-29 quercus sda8 0 DailySet1-08 6 -- OK > 2009-04-30 quercus sda8 0 DailySet1-09 6 -- OK > 2009-05-01 quercus sda8 1 DailySet1-10 6 -- OK > 2009-05-02 quercus sda8 0 DailySet1-11 6 -- OK > 2009-05-05 quercus sda8 0 DailySet1-12 6 -- OK > 2009-05-06 quercus sda8 1 DailySet1-13 6 -- OK > 2009-05-07 quercus sda8 0 DailySet1-14 6 -- OK > 2009-05-08 quercus sda8 1 DailySet1-15 6 -- OK > 2009-05-09 quercus sda8 0 DailySet1-16 6 -- OK > 2009-05-10 quercus sda8 0 DailySet1-17 6 -- OK > 2009-05-12 quercus sda8 0 DailySet1-18 6 -- OK > 2009-05-13 quercus sda8 0 DailySet1-19 6 -- OK > 2009-05-14 quercus sda8 0 DailySet1-20 6 -- OK > > It seems that for the last fews days Amanda is doing a full backup > every night. The filesystem on sda8 contains only the lost+found > directory and it or its contents are not changing. > > However, according to the backup report, incrementals are definitely > happening:
If sda8 contains only a L&F directory, and that directory is probably empty, then amanda is probably saying both an incremental and a full backup will take the same amount of space (one 32K block on tape) so why not do the full backup. -- Jon H. LaBadie [email protected] JG Computing 12027 Creekbend Drive (703) 787-0884 Reston, VA 20194 (703) 787-0922 (fax)
