Robert,
When not using a holding disk, amanda use the 'fallback-splitsize'
Jean-Louis
On 06/09/2014 11:05 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
I am using 2.6.1p2-8.el6 on a CentOS 6.5 system. I am using virtual tapes
(chg-disk) as my backup device. I want to use 5G 'tapes' and a split size of
1G. But amanda is using a splitsize of 10meg. Why is it doing this?
Here is my amanda config file (*I* cannot find the error):
org "Wendell Free Library" # Organization name for reports
mailto "[email protected]" # Email address to receive reports
netusage 10000 Kbps # Bandwidth limit, 10M
displayunit "m"
runtapes 15
dumpcycle 4 weeks # Backup cycle is 28 days
runspercycle 28 # Run 28 times every 28 days
tapecycle 60 tapes # Dump to 60 different tapes during the
cycle
tpchanger "chg-disk" # The tape-changer glue script
changerfile "/etc/amanda/wendellfreelibrary/changer" # The tape-changer file
tapedev "file://backupdisk/wendellfreelibrary/slots" # The no-rewind tape device to be used
tapetype HARDDISK # Define the type of tape
infofile "/var/log/amanda/wendellfreelibrary/curinfo" # Database
directory
logdir "/var/log/amanda/wendellfreelibrary/logs" # Log directory
indexdir "/var/log/amanda/wendellfreelibrary/index" # Index directory
define tapetype HARDDISK { # Define our tape
behaviour
length 5001 Mb
}
define changer vault_changer {
tpchanger "chg-disk:/backupdisk/wendellfreelibrary_vault/slots"
changerfile "/etc/amanda/wendellfreelibrary/vault_changer"
#length 5001 mbytes
}
amrecover_changer "changer" # Changer for amrecover
define dumptype global { # The global dump definition
maxdumps 2 # The maximum number of backups run in parallel
estimate calcsize # Estimate the backup size before dump
holdingdisk no # Don't dump to temp disk (holdingdisk) before
backup to tape
index yes # Generate index. For restoration usage
}
define dumptype root-tar { # How to dump root's directory
global # Include global (as above)
program "GNUTAR" # Program name for compress
comment "root partitions dumped with tar"
compress none # No compress
index # Index this dump
priority low # Priority level
tape_splitsize 1 Gb
}
define dumptype comp-root-tar {
root-tar
compress client best
tape_splitsize 1 Gb
}
define dumptype user-tar { # How to dump user's directory
root-tar # Include root-tar (as above)
comment "user partitions dumped with tar"
priority medium # Priority level
tape_splitsize 1 Gb
}
define dumptype comp-user-tar { # How to dump & compress user's directory
user-tar # Include user-tar (as above)
compress client fast # Compress in client side with less CPU (fast)
tape_splitsize 1 Gb
}
