Re: Not doing a full backup when using --notaper

2012-08-09 Thread Matt
I put reserve 25 in the amanda.conf file for the backup, and I know get full backups using the --notaper option on amdump Thanks! On 2012-08-02 08:09, Brian Cuttler wrote: On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 02:04:53PM -0500, Matt wrote: The idea was to backup the desktop machines during the

Re: Not doing a full backup when using --notaper

2012-08-02 Thread Matt
The idea was to backup the desktop machines during the day when they were on but wait until night time to upload the backup files to Amazon S3 to make better use of our Internet connection. If there's another way to accomplish this, I'm all for changing! I'll take a look at the reserve

Re: Not doing a full backup when using --notaper

2012-08-02 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 02:04:53PM -0500, Matt wrote: The idea was to backup the desktop machines during the day when they were on but wait until night time to upload the backup files to Amazon S3 to make better use of our Internet connection. ah, hadn't looked closely enough at the

Not doing a full backup when using --notaper

2012-08-01 Thread Matt
Here's what I have in my crontab 0 10 * * * /usr/sbin/amdump --no-taper dell 0 2 * * * /usr/sbin/amflush -b dell Here's what I have in my dell configuration org Impari Systems # your organization name for reports mailto m...@imparisystems.com # space separated list of operators at your

Re: Not doing a full backup when using --notaper

2012-08-01 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Matt, What's the 'reserve' configuration? By default, amanda do only incrementals when run without tape. Jean-Louis On 08/01/2012 02:07 PM, Matt wrote: Here's what I have in my crontab 0 10 * * * /usr/sbin/amdump --no-taper dell 0 2 * * * /usr/sbin/amflush -b dell Here's what I have in my

Re: Not doing a full backup when using --notaper

2012-08-01 Thread Brian Cuttler
Matt, My guess is that with --no-taper you are writing to the reserve area as if the tape failed and you had gone into degraded mode. In that mode you do in fact perform incrementals because without the tape being available you are trying to conserve your work area. Not sure what the goal is