Thanks for the tip. That led me to https://adsm.org/lists/html/Amanda-Users/2006-04/msg00155.html
which explained the issue perfectly. I'll try it out tonight. --hymie! On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 08:32:22AM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > 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, [email protected] 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: > > > > [snip] > > > > 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!
