The message 'but it doesn't seem to do much of anything' is not really
useful.
What are the error in the email report?
Jean-Louis
On 11/15/2011 04:10 PM, Matt wrote:
I'm trying to run the dump during the day and then send the backup to
Amazon at night when it won't disturb my bandwidth.
I've got two entries in cron under the amanda user (amandabackup)
0 9 * * * /usr/sbin/amdump --no-taper dell
0 2 * * * /usr/sbin/amflush -b dell
They both run, but it doesn't seem to do much of anything. I know
that it works, because when I run
amdump dell &
at the command line, it will backup everything that should be backed
up according to the settings in the configuration file including
incremental vs. full
Does no-taper mean something else than I think? I thought it just
dumps everything to disk but doesn't flush it out to tape. Here's some
output from that
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Hostname: ubuntu Org : Impari Systems Config : dell Date : October 4, 2011 There are 0G
of dumps left in the holding disk. Run amflush to flush them to tape. The next tape
Amanda expects to use is: dell-0003. STATISTICS: Total Full Incr. Level:# --------
-------- -------- -------- Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:00 Run Time (hrs:min) 0:02 Dump Time
(hrs:min) 0:01 0:00 0:01 Output Size (meg) 12.7 0.0 12.7 Original Size (meg) 14.3 0.0
14.3 Avg Compressed Size (%) 89.1 -- 89.1 DLEs Dumped 6 0 6 1:6 Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 388.2
-- 388.2 Tape Time (hrs:min) 0:00 0:00 0:00 Tape Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0 Tape Used (%) 0.0
0.0 0.0 DLEs Taped 0 0 0 Parts Taped 0 0 0 Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) -- -- -- NOTES:
planner: Full dump of mlb-dell.local:"/media/windows/Documents and Settings/Matt
Burkhardt/My Documents" promoted from 1 day ahead. DUMP SUMMARY: DUMPER STATS TAPER
STATS HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-GB OUT-GB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s
-------------------------- ----------------------------------!
--- ------------- mlb-dell.loc -lb/Desktop 1 0 0 20.0 0:05 0.4 mlb-dell.loc -/Documents 1 0 0 6.5
0:05 17.6 mlb-dell.loc -b/Pictures 1 0 0 12.0 0:05 1.2 mlb-dell.loc -lb/Quicken 1 0 0 10.0 0:00
21.7 mlb-dell.loc "-ocuments" 1 0 0 7.5 0:05 1.2 mlb-dell.loc "-ocuments" 1 0 0
99.1 0:13 993.4
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