On Tuesday 18 April 2006 22:50, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> >
> > > If amcheck still complains show us a chunk of your config file
> > > around the problem line.
> >
> > maxpromotedays 0# Ensure reasonable number of incrementals
>
> ^^
>
> > dumpcycle 7 # The number of days in t
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 08:15:50PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 April 2006 19:48, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> >
> > You shouldn't trust everything said on the mailing list ;(
> >
> :-)
> > According to the manpage for amanda/amanda.conf, it is singular,
> > no "s". But check it for spelling
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 19:48, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>
> You shouldn't trust everything said on the mailing list ;(
>
:-)
> According to the manpage for amanda/amanda.conf, it is singular,
> no "s". But check it for spelling too.
>
Checked, and checked.
> If amcheck still complains show us a chunk o
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 19:58, Frank Smith wrote:
>
> On the older 2.4.5 version I have, the man page shows it as singular,
> but I don't use it so it could be a typo.
Hmm - you're right. I checked the man page for 2.5 and it is singular, so it
was right the first time.
>Are you sure that
Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 17 April 2006 19:24, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>> One of the goals of the amanda planner is to have a consistant
>> sized backup each run. That is clearly not going to happen
>> with the DLEs you are backing up. If you want to defeat this
>> aspect of amanda's planning the
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 07:13:39PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 17 April 2006 19:24, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> >
> > One of the goals of the amanda planner is to have a consistant
> > sized backup each run. That is clearly not going to happen
> > with the DLEs you are backing up. If you want
On Monday 17 April 2006 19:24, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>
> One of the goals of the amanda planner is to have a consistant
> sized backup each run. That is clearly not going to happen
> with the DLEs you are backing up. If you want to defeat this
> aspect of amanda's planning the parameters are there,
Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 02:03:29PM -0500, Frank Smith wrote:
>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>> When I add the video directories, I'll put them into two DLEs, which will
>>> give around 5GB in one and 10GB in the other, and I'll start them on
>>> different days. That should help the
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 02:03:29PM -0500, Frank Smith wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> >
> > When I add the video directories, I'll put them into two DLEs, which will
> > give around 5GB in one and 10GB in the other, and I'll start them on
> > different days. That should help the balancing, I thi
On Monday 17 April 2006 20:03, Frank Smith wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > When I add the video directories, I'll put them into two DLEs, which
> > will give around 5GB in one and 10GB in the other, and I'll start them on
> > different days. That should help the balancing, I think.
> >
> > Anne
>
Anne Wilson wrote:
>
> When I add the video directories, I'll put them into two DLEs, which will
> give around 5GB in one and 10GB in the other, and I'll start them on
> different days. That should help the balancing, I think.
>
> Anne
Also, if you have DLEs that change infrequently, and tha
On Monday 17 April 2006 19:24, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>
> Just to be sure you understand what is happening, I'll try an
> example based on your DLEs. Assumptions, 3 DLEs, photo (4GB),
> public (3GB), and home (21GB); dumpcycle == runspercycle == 4.
>
> Amanda knows from historical data that it must ba
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 06:50:37PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 17 April 2006 16:47, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 12:15:07PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > The DLEs are set to a 4-day rotation, but in practice I
> > > am seeing level 0 backups almost every other day,
On Monday 17 April 2006 18:34, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>
> promoting == moving to a lower numeric level
> bumping == moving to a higher numeric level
>
> If the last dump of a DLE was an incremental, and it is not
> scheduled for a level 0, then amanda must decide to promote,
> repeat, or bump the lev
On Monday 17 April 2006 16:47, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 12:15:07PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > The DLEs are set to a 4-day rotation, but in practice I
> > am seeing level 0 backups almost every other day, for all of them.
> >
> > It would seem reasonable, to me, based on t
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 05:00:25PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 17 April 2006 16:47, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
>
> > Another thing you can do that helped me out a lot - change the bump
> > parameters! I work with a fairly large Amanda setup where disk space
> > is usually at a premium. I w
On Monday 17 April 2006 17:31, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 05:05:46PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Monday 17 April 2006 16:39, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > > - for static data, I have such a beast, a file system of iso images
> > > of OS installation CDs, I set that DLE to strategy
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 05:05:46PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 17 April 2006 16:39, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>
> > - for static data, I have such a beast, a file system of iso images
> > of OS installation CDs, I set that DLE to strategy full dump only
> >
> I'm still very new to this, and t
On Monday 17 April 2006 16:39, Jon LaBadie wrote:
Hi, Jon.
> The combination of a low number of DLEs and greatly varying sizes
> for those DLEs will always cause the promotion problems you are
> seeing. Amanda is trying to "balance" the amount of work done
> daily and if you are trying to average
On Monday 17 April 2006 16:47, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
>
> If you want a level0 weekly why not set your dumpcycle to 7 days? This
> basically tells Amanda to try and do weekly level0 backups and
> incrementals are okay in between.
>
That's what I thought, thanks.
> Another thing you can do that he
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 12:15:07PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> The DLEs are set to a 4-day rotation, but in practice I
> am seeing level 0 backups almost every other day, for all of them.
>
> It would seem reasonable, to me, based on the small amount of changes,
> to have a level0 weekly, for all
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 12:15:07PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> I'm not having any problems with amanda, but the results do seem
> 'over-the'top' for my needs, which leads me to wonder whether I need to
> change some parameters.
>
> At the moment there are three DLEs. One is a backup of the whol
On Monday 17 April 2006 13:47, Matt Hyclak wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 12:15:07PM +0100, Anne Wilson enlightened us:
> > I did wonder if it was possible to define a completely separate set of
> > parameters for these video directories, using a monthly rotation, say,
> > but I get the impressio
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 12:15:07PM +0100, Anne Wilson enlightened us:
> I did wonder if it was possible to define a completely separate set of
> parameters for these video directories, using a monthly rotation, say, but I
> get the impression that that's not possible.
>
You could do a second con
I'm not having any problems with amanda, but the results do seem
'over-the'top' for my needs, which leads me to wonder whether I need to
change some parameters.
At the moment there are three DLEs. One is a backup of the whole /home with a
few exceptions, and that is quite big, around 21GB. Th
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