On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 02:04:53PM -0500, Matt wrote: > > > The idea was to backup the desktop machines during the day when they > were on but wait until night time to upload the backup files to Amazon > S3 to make better use of our Internet connection.
ah, hadn't looked closely enough at the crontab file. > If there's another > way to accomplish this, I'm all for changing! Isn't there a client side push for amanda, it is sounding a bell in my head but I don't recall why. > I'll take a look at the > reserve configuration, but since I know nothing of it, it might be > empty.... Not a matter of empty, it has a default value, but I forget if its a "reserve for degraded" or "reserve for nightly" one being the inverse of the other. Value is a percentage of the holding area, I just forget if you want to shoot for 0% or 100%, read carefully. > Thanks! > > On 2012-08-01 13:24, Brian Cuttler wrote: > > > > Matt, > > > > My guess is that with --no-taper you are writing to the > reserve > > area as if the tape failed and you had gone into degraded > mode. > > > > In that mode you do in fact perform incrementals because > without > > the tape being available you are trying to conserve your work > area. > > > > Not sure what the goal is for the --no-taper specification. > > > > > There are some nice, relatively new, tape selection parameters in > > > the newer versions of amanda (amanda.conf settings), these allow > > you > to only write tapes that will be filled, holding or flushing > > files for > a variety of reasons. > > > > Perhaps that would be better than running > --no-taper and then flushing, > > but I don't know where you are going > with it. > > > > best, > > > > Brian > > > > On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 01:07:22PM > -0500, Matt wrote: > > > >> Here's what I have in my crontab 0 10 * * * > /usr/sbin/amdump --no-taper dell 0 2 * * * /usr/sbin/amflush -b dell > Here's what I have in my dell configuration org "Impari Systems" # your > organization name for reports mailto "m...@imparisystems.com [1]" # space > separated list of operators at your site dumpcycle 1 weeks # the number > of days in the normal dump cycle runspercycle 7 # the number of amdump > runs in dumpcycle days # (1 week * 5 amdump runs per week -- just > weekdays) tapecycle 15 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation My > problem - it runs and does an incremental backup. I've tracked it for > over a month and it's only done incrementals. Here's an example of the > output Hostname: ubuntu Org : Impari Systems Config : dell Date : July > 31, 2012 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-0002. > STATISTICS: Total Full Incr. Level:# -------- -------- -------- -------- > Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:00 Run Time (hrs:min) 0:03 Dump Time (hrs:min) > 0:02 0:00 0:02 Output Size (meg) 106.0 0.0 106.0 Original Size (meg) > 183.7 0.0 183.7 Avg Compressed Size (%) 57.7 -- 57.7 DLEs Dumped 6 0 6 > 1:6 Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 1131.4 -- 1131.4 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) -- -- -- 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 55.8 1:09 > 1201.5 mlb-dell.loc -b/Pictures 1 0 0 85.8 0:01 898.3 mlb-dell.loc > -lb/Quicken 1 0 0 10.0 0:00 5.5 mlb-dell.loc "-ocuments" 1 0 0 77.4 0:19 > 1238.2 mlb-dell.loc "-ocuments" 1 0 0 19.5 0:02 770.7 (brought to you by > Amanda version 3.2.0) However, if I run it without the --no-taper > directive, it knows it needs to run a full backup. Is this a (l)user > error? Do I have something wrong with my config or the crontab entry? > Thanks, -- Matt Burkhardt, MS Technology Management > m...@imparisystems.com [2] c - 301-802-3235 o - 301-682-7901 502 Fairview > Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 http://www.imparisystems.com [3] --- > > > > > Brian R Cuttler brian.cutt...@wadsworth.org > > Computer Systems Support > (v) 518 486-1697 > > Wadsworth Center (f) 518 473-6384 > > NYS Department of > Health Help Desk 518 473-0773 > > > > IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any > attachments may contain > > confidential or sensitive information which > is, or may be, legally > > privileged or otherwise protected by law from > further disclosure. It > > is intended only for the addressee. If you > received this in error or > > from someone who was not authorized to send > it to you, please do not > > distribute, copy or use it or any > attachments. Please notify the > > sender immediately by reply e-mail and > delete this from your > > system. Thank you for your cooperation. > > -- > > > Matt Burkhardt, MS Technology Management > m...@imparisystems.com > c - > 301-802-3235 > o - 301-682-7901 > > 502 Fairview Avenue > Frederick, MD > 21701 > http://www.imparisystems.com > > > Links: > ------ > [1] > mailto:m...@imparisystems.com > [2] mailto:m...@imparisystems.com > [3] > http://www.imparisystems.com --- Brian R Cuttler brian.cutt...@wadsworth.org Computer Systems Support (v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center (f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of Health Help Desk 518 473-0773 IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential or sensitive information which is, or may be, legally privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, please do not distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. 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