Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-16 Thread Thomas Widhalm
And, actually, we did not yet see how many times this DLE was dumped with level 0. Can you post the output of amadmin config balance and amoverview config (or mail it to me if it contains too much private information). [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# amadmin IS balance due-date #fs

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-16 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Thomas Widhalm schrieb: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# amadmin IS balance due-date #fsorig KB out KB balance -- 3/16 Thu0 0 0 --- 3/17 Fri0 0 0 --- 3/18 Sat0 0

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-03-16 09:12, Thomas Widhalm wrote: And, actually, we did not yet see how many times this DLE was dumped with level 0. Can you post the output of amadmin config balance and amoverview config (or mail it to me if it contains too much private information). [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]#

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-16 Thread Thomas Widhalm
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 10:32 +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-03-16 09:12, Thomas Widhalm wrote: And, actually, we did not yet see how many times this DLE was dumped with level 0. Can you post the output of amadmin config balance and amoverview config (or mail it to me if it contains

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-16 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 10:43:30AM +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 10:32 +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-03-16 09:12, Thomas Widhalm wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# amadmin IS balance due-date #fsorig KB out KB balance

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-16 Thread Thomas Widhalm
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 09:27 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 10:43:30AM +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 10:32 +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-03-16 09:12, Thomas Widhalm wrote: Should you decide to consolidate, I'd recommend you NOT do it all in one

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-15 Thread Thomas Widhalm
On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 22:49 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Widhalm schrieb: Have you tried resetting some parameters like bumpsize, bumpmult, and bumpdays? They may have an affect on your situation. This could really be it.

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-15 Thread Thomas Widhalm
On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 22:49 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Widhalm schrieb: Have you tried resetting some parameters like bumpsize, bumpmult, and bumpdays? They may have an affect on your situation. This could really be it.

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-15 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 01:03:51PM +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote: On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 22:49 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: If that didn't solve your issues you maybe share your config with us. This would help to get the picture. Here are the 2 parts of the config: I took the

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-15 Thread Thomas Widhalm
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 09:45 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 01:03:51PM +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote: On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 22:49 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: If that didn't solve your issues you maybe share your config with us. This would help to get the

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 04:48, Thomas Widhalm wrote: On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 22:49 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Widhalm schrieb: Have you tried resetting some parameters like bumpsize, bumpmult, and bumpdays? They may have an

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 07:03, Thomas Widhalm wrote: On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 22:49 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Widhalm schrieb: Have you tried resetting some parameters like bumpsize, bumpmult, and bumpdays? They may have an

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-15 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Thomas Widhalm schrieb: I removed all tapes from the config. I just save to the holding disk. I can live with the daily tape error, but I want amanda to do less full backups. || || holdingdisk hd1 { || comment main holding disk for IS || directory /data/amanda/IS || use -1

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-15 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 04:08:05PM +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 09:45 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 01:03:51PM +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote: Here are the 2 parts of the config: I took the liberty of deleting the comments and unneeded

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-15 Thread Thomas Widhalm
Am Mittwoch, 15. März 2006 17:27 schrieb Jon LaBadie: On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 04:08:05PM +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 09:45 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 01:03:51PM +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote: Here are the 2 parts of the config: Amazing

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-15 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-03-15 17:27, Jon LaBadie wrote: I don't think this is the problem, but I do not see a record yes setting. I wonder if that is needed to ensure amanda knows when the last full dump was done? It is needed for dump, but I'm uncertain about gnutar. I think you hit the nail right on the

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-15 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Paul Bijnens schrieb: On 2006-03-15 17:27, Jon LaBadie wrote: I don't think this is the problem, but I do not see a record yes setting. I wonder if that is needed to ensure amanda knows when the last full dump was done? It is needed for dump, but I'm uncertain about gnutar. I think you

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-15 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 06:05:05PM +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote: Am Mittwoch, 15. März 2006 17:27 schrieb Jon LaBadie: I know you are not using tape now, but whenever you run amcheck (you do don't right?) it will complain tapecycle less than runspercycle. I do call amcheck from a script

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-15 Thread Thomas Widhalm
Am Mittwoch, 15. März 2006 18:13 schrieb Paul Bijnens: On 2006-03-15 17:27, Jon LaBadie wrote: I don't think this is the problem, but I do not see a record yes setting. I wonder if that is needed to ensure amanda knows when the last full dump was done? It is needed for dump, but I'm

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-15 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Thomas Widhalm schrieb: I ran a amadmin config disklist right now and here is one example for the disks I encountered many level 0 backups. host springfield.edvz.sbg.ac.at: interface default disk /: program GNUTAR priority 1 dumpcycle 6

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-15 Thread Paul Bijnens
Thomas Widhalm schreef: I ran a amadmin config disklist right now and here is one example for the disks I encountered many level 0 backups. host springfield.edvz.sbg.ac.at: interface default disk /: program GNUTAR priority 1 dumpcycle 6 maxdumps 1

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-15 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 11:10:15PM +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote: Am Mittwoch, 15. März 2006 18:13 schrieb Paul Bijnens: On 2006-03-15 17:27, Jon LaBadie wrote: I don't think this is the problem, but I do not see a record yes setting. I wonder if that is needed to ensure amanda knows when

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 11:27, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 04:08:05PM +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 09:45 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 01:03:51PM +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote: Here are the 2 parts of the config: [...] I don't think

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-14 Thread Thomas Widhalm
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 10:59 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 04:05:00PM +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote: On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 15:57 +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-03-13 15:45, Thomas Widhalm wrote: Hi! We have a rather old workstation running tao 1 (is RHEL 3)

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 08:54, Thomas Widhalm wrote: On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 10:59 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 04:05:00PM +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote: On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 15:57 +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-03-13 15:45, Thomas Widhalm wrote: Hi! We

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-14 Thread Thomas Widhalm
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 10:59 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 04:05:00PM +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote: On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 15:57 +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-03-13 15:45, Thomas Widhalm wrote: Have you tried resetting some parameters like bumpsize, bumpmult, and

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 11:03, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 09:22:08AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 14 March 2006 08:54, Thomas Widhalm wrote: dumpcycle 8 days. amanda run from a script within crontab every day. There was an etc. up there. Presumably your

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-14 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Widhalm schrieb: Have you tried resetting some parameters like bumpsize, bumpmult, and bumpdays? They may have an affect on your situation. This could really be it. bumpsize was set 100Mb. Maybe, because this setup was used to backup on

backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-13 Thread Thomas Widhalm
Hi! We have a rather old workstation running tao 1 (is RHEL 3) with amanda amanda-2.4.4p1-0.3E.1 . Since this is too old for vdisks, we just backup to the holding disk. But it makes lots of level 0 backups. Some filesystems have level 0 just every day! Is there a way to make level incemental

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-13 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-03-13 15:45, Thomas Widhalm wrote: Hi! We have a rather old workstation running tao 1 (is RHEL 3) with amanda amanda-2.4.4p1-0.3E.1 . Since this is too old for vdisks, we just backup to the holding disk. But it makes lots of level 0 backups. Some filesystems have level 0 just every day!

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-13 Thread Thomas Widhalm
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 15:57 +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-03-13 15:45, Thomas Widhalm wrote: Hi! We have a rather old workstation running tao 1 (is RHEL 3) with amanda amanda-2.4.4p1-0.3E.1 . Since this is too old for vdisks, we just backup to the holding disk. But it makes lots

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 04:05:00PM +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote: On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 15:57 +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-03-13 15:45, Thomas Widhalm wrote: Hi! We have a rather old workstation running tao 1 (is RHEL 3) with amanda amanda-2.4.4p1-0.3E.1 . Since this is too old

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-13 Thread Leonid Shulov
Hi, NG! I do night backup from all servers and PC's and 3 daily backups to holding disk, and after that amflush (All this backups is incrementals) All backup files is with level 0. Once weekly I do full backup. That happened after upgrading to new version. Thanks, Leonid Thomas Widhalm wrote:

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-13 Thread Paul Bijnens
Leonid Shulov schreef: Hi, NG! I do night backup from all servers and PC's and 3 daily backups to holding disk, and after that amflush (All this backups is incrementals) All backup files is with level 0. Once weekly I do full backup. That happened after upgrading to new version. Is this a