Greetings. I recently updated from amanda 3.4.3 to 3.4.4 and then 3.4.5 . I don't think I changed anything else. My "dumpcycle" is 30 days. But now I seem to be getting a lot of level-0 backups:
-rw------- 1 amanda backup 3019375786 May 18 23:29 slot21/00034.herman._usr.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 3019440134 May 28 23:37 slot32/00026.herman._usr.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 3019354478 Jun 2 23:36 slot37/00033.herman._usr.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 3019445779 Jun 3 23:38 slot38/00034.herman._usr.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 3019571207 Jun 10 01:34 slot46/00030.herman._usr.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 109967018 Jun 6 05:54 slot41/00001.lactose._.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 110058151 Jun 7 00:51 slot43/00033.lactose._.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 110209614 Jun 7 23:33 slot44/00029.lactose._.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 110349578 Jun 13 00:26 slot49/00033.lactose._.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 110462706 Jun 14 00:32 slot50/00034.lactose._.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 110549790 Jun 15 01:03 slot51/00028.lactose._.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 718508253 Jun 6 06:04 slot42/00001.lactose._usr.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 719038186 Jun 7 00:51 slot43/00032.lactose._usr.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 719633882 Jun 11 00:08 slot47/00032.lactose._usr.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 719679994 Jun 13 00:26 slot49/00032.lactose._usr.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 719680251 Jun 14 00:32 slot50/00032.lactose._usr.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 11952584 May 25 23:30 slot28/00027.laptop._var.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 12032423 May 30 23:43 slot34/00029.laptop._var.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 12034670 Jun 2 23:33 slot37/00028.laptop._var.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 12035672 Jun 3 23:33 slot38/00028.laptop._var.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 12339675 Jun 9 00:42 slot45/00029.laptop._var.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 12366261 Jun 10 01:25 slot46/00028.laptop._var.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 1386035456 May 26 10:00 slot29/00001.laptop._usr.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 1396364428 May 31 00:40 slot34/00037.laptop._usr.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 1396427604 Jun 2 00:34 slot36/00037.laptop._usr.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 1396452649 Jun 5 00:29 slot39/00037.laptop._usr.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 1396418714 Jun 6 00:52 slot40/00027.laptop._usr.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 786M Jun 1 01:17 slot35/00037.michlaptop.extra.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 786M Jun 1 23:52 slot36/00036.michlaptop.extra.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 786M Jun 3 23:53 slot38/00037.michlaptop.extra.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 786M Jun 5 23:59 slot40/00026.michlaptop.extra.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 786M Jun 7 01:11 slot43/00036.michlaptop.extra.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 786M Jun 11 00:17 slot47/00037.michlaptop.extra.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 786M Jun 13 00:44 slot49/00037.michlaptop.extra.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 786M Jun 14 00:47 slot50/00037.michlaptop.extra.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 2.9G Jun 1 01:01 slot35/00004.michlaptop.appdata.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 2.9G Jun 7 00:51 slot43/00004.michlaptop.appdata.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 2.9G Jun 9 00:42 slot45/00004.michlaptop.appdata.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 3.0G Jun 11 00:08 slot47/00004.michlaptop.appdata.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 3.0G Jun 13 00:25 slot49/00004.michlaptop.appdata.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 3.0G Jun 14 00:31 slot50/00004.michlaptop.appdata.0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 3.0G Jun 15 01:02 slot51/00004.michlaptop.appdata.0 This doesn't seem normal to me. I mean, maybe Amanda just thinks my backups are so small that it's more efficient to do lots of level-0s than to need multiple disks for restores ... but I don't agree. I'm much more concered about (virtual) tape usage and backup speed. Is there something I can do? A setting I can change? Or a log I can look at to figure out why? Or is this "just the way it is"? Thanks. --hymie!
