Am 2011-01-17 23:17, schrieb Robert Heller: > We are running Amanda 3.2.0 on three CentOS 5.5 systems. > > We have one large (1.5TB total) file system for data (/data), three > 100meg /boot file systems (one on each machine) and three ~100G root > (/) file systems (one on each machine). > > We are using a 2TB USB disk for backup storage, with a disk-based > (virtual) tape changer. The tape changer is set up to have 200GB > 'tapes' with a chunksize of 50GB. We are using a 7-day backup cycle and > are using 1 tape per run. > > Amanda does a full backup of the /data on one day of the week and then > does level one backups for the rest of the week. It does a level one > backup of the other 6 disks on the day it does the full of /data, and > then does full backups of the other 6 disks on the other 6 days. > > Why does Amanda make so many full backups? Is there a configuation > parameter we need to set to change this?
parameter "dumpcycle" ? Show us your config and we tell you more ;-) Stefan
