On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 09:43:42 -0700, Jim Kusznir wrote:
> Ever since, any backup is run as a level 0 (even though it reports doing a
> level 1, 2, etc). Everything runs as 0.
You mean that the Amanda Mail Report shows the various incremental
levels, but the actual size of the dump is always the same as a level
dump?
Are you backing up anything on the Amanda server, or are all your DLEs
on the BSD client? Nothing changed on the BSD client, except that it
was rebooted, right?
How long has it been continuing to do this? Does the behavior continue
after a given DLE performs an actual level 0 backup?
> dumptype is based on comp-tar-user, and has exclude lists (I'm backing up a
> 100TB storage array by subdividing using exclude lists as indicated in the
> wiki).
>
> What could have been going on here? How do I get it working again?
Assuming you are referring to the comp-user-tar dumptype from the
example amanda.conf file distributed with Amanda, that would be using
the GNUTAR program, and thus it would be using tar's "snapshot" files to
manage the incrementals. So one thing to check is to find where the
snapshot files are being stored and make sure they are getting updated
correctly each run -- post a before and after output of "ls -l" on that
directory.
(On my Ubuntu Linux box the snapshot files are put under
/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/ by default, and the names of the files are
constructed from the host name, mount point, and incremental level,
e.g.:
-rw------- 1 backup backup 10083684 Nov 7 2018 myhost.example.com__0
-rw------- 1 backup backup 10085466 Nov 2 2018 myhost.example.com__1
-rw------- 1 backup backup 95 Nov 7 2018 myhost.example.com_mnt_0
-rw------- 1 backup backup 74 Nov 9 2018 myhost.exmaple.com_mnt_1
)
Nathan
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