Amanda promote some dle to level-0 backup to try to balance the size of full done every days. The smaller dles sometime get over promoted. You can set the maxpromoteday to a smaller value for the dle that get over promoted.
Jean-Louis On 15/06/17 06:06 AM, hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: > 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! > This message is the property of CARBONITE, INC. and may contain confidential or privileged information. If this message has been delivered to you by mistake, then do not copy or deliver this message to anyone. Instead, destroy it and notify me by reply e-mail
