Re: gtar always doing fulls with --listed-incremental even if level > 0 ?

2003-12-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 13:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Gene Heskett: >>And I didn't even get his name right > >Funny stuff. > >My wife did a google on my email address recently - she saw some of > my public gaffs in all their glory. Ouch . . . . > Yup, they CAN be that way if the occasion s

Re: gtar always doing fulls with --listed-incremental even if level > 0 ?

2003-12-24 Thread tobias . bluhm
Gene Heskett: >And I didn't even get his name right Funny stuff. My wife did a google on my email address recently - she saw some of my public gaffs in all their glory. Ouch . . . . Happy Holidays! - toby bluhm philips medical systems, it

Re: gtar always doing fulls with --listed-incremental even if level > 0 ?

2003-12-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 12:46, Gene Heskett wrote: >On Wednesday 24 December 2003 11:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Scott Mcdermott: >>>record no >> >>Is the box saving any historical backup info? Can't do an inc if it >> has nothing to compare with. >> >>/etc/amandates >>/et

Re: gtar always doing fulls with --listed-incremental even if level > 0 ?

2003-12-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 11:44, Scott Mcdermott wrote: >Gene Heskett on Wed 24/12 11:04 -0500: >> And samba isn't involved with amanda? I think I'd verify >> that by shutting samba down for the next backup. Just for >> grins :) > >how can it be? here is the DLE: > >diabolus2.rwc.questra.

Re: gtar always doing fulls with --listed-incremental even if level > 0 ?

2003-12-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 11:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Scott Mcdermott: >>record no > >Is the box saving any historical backup info? Can't do an inc if it > has nothing to compare with. > >/etc/amandates >/etc/dumpdates >/usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/ Good Catch(tm),

Re: gtar always doing fulls with --listed-incremental even if level > 0 ?

2003-12-24 Thread tobias . bluhm
Scott Mcdermott: >There's stuff being saved in gnutar-lists definitely, but >amandates is empty. I'm not using `dump' so does the >`record' option matter? Seems it does. Looking at my system, /etc/amandates has entries for all dle's _except_ for the ones I have "record no" > You can clea

Re: gtar always doing fulls with --listed-incremental even if level > 0 ?

2003-12-24 Thread Scott Mcdermott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed 24/12 10:41 -0600: > > >record no > > > Is the box saving any historical backup info? Can't do an > inc if it has nothing to compare with. > > /etc/amandates > /etc/dumpdates > /usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/ There's stuff being saved in gnutar-lis

Re: gtar always doing fulls with --listed-incremental even if level > 0 ?

2003-12-24 Thread Scott Mcdermott
Gene Heskett on Wed 24/12 11:04 -0500: > And samba isn't involved with amanda? I think I'd verify > that by shutting samba down for the next backup. Just for > grins :) how can it be? here is the DLE: diabolus2.rwc.questra.com /export/finance tardump and the dumptype from my amanda.conf:

Re: gtar always doing fulls with --listed-incremental even if level > 0 ?

2003-12-24 Thread tobias . bluhm
Scott Mcdermott: >record no Is the box saving any historical backup info? Can't do an inc if it has nothing to compare with. /etc/amandates /etc/dumpdates /usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/ - toby bluhm philips medical sy

Re: gtar always doing fulls with --listed-incremental even if level > 0 ?

2003-12-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 10:52, Scott Mcdermott wrote: >Gene Heskett on Wed 24/12 10:47 -0500: >> AFAIK, samba doesn't support those times. So you will, if >> samba is the transport from client to server, get a full >> backup of everything everytime. Or at least thats been my >> experience w

Re: gtar always doing fulls with --listed-incremental even if level > 0 ?

2003-12-24 Thread Scott Mcdermott
Gene Heskett on Wed 24/12 10:47 -0500: > AFAIK, samba doesn't support those times. So you will, if > samba is the transport from client to server, get a full > backup of everything everytime. Or at least thats been my > experience with the samba 2.x family, and I have not yet > installed 3.0, bas

Re: gtar always doing fulls with --listed-incremental even if level > 0 ?

2003-12-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 10:00, Scott Mcdermott wrote: >Gene Heskett on Wed 24/12 09:55 -0500: >> What filesystem on the target, and what linkage/transport, >> samba or amanda client? > >Amanda server is on the same machine as the client, it's >backing up to itself with straight GNU tar. FS i

Re: gtar always doing fulls with --listed-incremental even if level > 0 ?

2003-12-24 Thread Scott Mcdermott
Gene Heskett on Wed 24/12 09:55 -0500: > What filesystem on the target, and what linkage/transport, > samba or amanda client? Amanda server is on the same machine as the client, it's backing up to itself with straight GNU tar. FS is ext3. However, it is exported by SAMBA, if that has anything to

Re: gtar always doing fulls with --listed-incremental even if level > 0 ?

2003-12-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 06:13, Scott Mcdermott wrote: What filesystem on the target, and what linkage/transport, samba or amanda client? >I'm trying to figure out why Amanda doesn't seem to ever do >incremental backups on any of my filesystems, even when I >have promotions disabled. > >Her

Re: gtar always doing fulls with --listed-incremental even if level > 0 ?

2003-12-24 Thread Scott Mcdermott
Cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed 24/12 07:39 -0500: > > 04:35:20 diabolus2 h77277 c11 j0 l4 s1 r0 [/export/finance] > > $ sudo find finance/ -mtime -4 | wc -l > > 0 > > sorry, I should have mentioned.../export/finance contains > only a single subdirectory, "finance/" oh, and find -ctime -4

Re: gtar always doing fulls with --listed-incremental even if level > 0 ?

2003-12-24 Thread Scott Mcdermott
Cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed 24/12 07:36 -0500: > 04:35:20 diabolus2 h77277 c11 j0 l4 s1 r0 [/export/finance] > $ sudo find finance/ -mtime -4 | wc -l > 0 sorry, I should have mentioned.../export/finance contains only a single subdirectory, "finance/"

Re: gtar always doing fulls with --listed-incremental even if level > 0 ?

2003-12-24 Thread Scott Mcdermott
Gerhard den Hollander on Wed 24/12 13:28 +0100: > * Scott Mcdermott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 06:13:21AM -0500) > > > HOSTNAME DISKLORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% > > MMM:SSKB/s MMM:SS > > +KB/s > > -

gtar always doing fulls with --listed-incremental even if level > 0 ?

2003-12-24 Thread Scott Mcdermott
I'm trying to figure out why Amanda doesn't seem to ever do incremental backups on any of my filesystems, even when I have promotions disabled. Here is an example of three successive runs for a particular export I'm backing up. The three lines below represent backups from days 2003122[012], and I