On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:31:48PM -0400, Robert Reilly wrote:
> From: Paul Yeatman [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 22:49 -0400, Robert Reilly wrote:
> > Hey all, I have a disk list that contains two file systems, total it
> > about 2TB, i really only want one full a week, but it seems to do a
> > full every other day. I dont care about restore time and needing more
> > tapes.. so any help setting the bump parameters to achieve this is
> > appreciated.
> >
>
> It sounds like it is a case of overpromoting more than a matter of your
> bump parameters. This is a common scenario for overpromoting when your
> number of DLEs is less than the days in your dumpcycle. Likely the
> dumptype parameter "maxpromoteday" set to 1 or 2 or even 0 would give
> you what you want.
>
> Paul
>
> and how to i accomplish with amanda enterprise ?, it is for the dump
> type correct ?
>
> Thanks,
> Robert Reilly
> Dir Sys Eng
> C 203.297.3653
>
As JLM pointed out to me earlier today, FTD *
amanda.conf(5)
...
DUMPTYPE SECTION
...
maxpromoteday ...
So your answer is yes.
* Follow The Docs, much nicer than RTFM :) .
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