Re: increments taped before level 0 ?

2016-01-27 Thread jflack
On 01/27/2016 11:47 AM, jflack wrote: > I guess what I'm wondering is, how straightforward is the > development of additional taperalgos? Can they be written > in Perl? Is there an API for retrieving information on the > dumps that are in the holdingdisk, and enough information to > figure out whi

Re: increments taped before level 0 ?

2016-01-27 Thread jflack
On 01/27/2016 04:17 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 03:39:39PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: >> >> You found a bug, amanda must always flush dump in datestamp order!! > > You mean within a group of the same DLE dumps or datestamp order > among all available dumps? The only c

Re: increments taped before level 0 ?

2016-01-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 03:39:39PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > On 27/01/16 11:47 AM, jflack wrote: > >On 01/26/2016 05:51 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > > > >>What is the taperalgo setting? > >largestfit > > man amanda.conf: > largestfit >The largest dump image that

Re: increments taped before level 0 ?

2016-01-27 Thread jflack
On 01/27/2016 03:39 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > man amanda.conf: > largestfit >The largest dump image that will fit on the current tape. > > The full dump is too large to fit on the tape, so amanda flush a smaller > dump (the incrementals). > > You found a bug, amanda m

Re: increments taped before level 0 ?

2016-01-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 27/01/16 11:47 AM, jflack wrote: On 01/26/2016 05:51 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: What is the taperalgo setting? largestfit man amanda.conf: largestfit The largest dump image that will fit on the current tape. The full dump is too large to fit on the tape, so amanda

Re: increments taped before level 0 ?

2016-01-27 Thread jflack
On 01/27/2016 01:35 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Sounds to me like you are doing these backups by hand, and IMO No siree. Cron is a wonderful thing. > If you don't have a user "amanda" make one, then put the backup into the > amanda crontab to be done in the middle of the night when the machine is

Re: increments taped before level 0 ?

2016-01-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 27 January 2016 11:47:25 jflack wrote: > On 01/26/2016 05:51 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > > What is the taperalgo setting? > > largestfit > > >>Dumps: lev datestmp tape file origK compK secs > >>0 20160124 0 20550680 20550680 36

Re: increments taped before level 0 ?

2016-01-27 Thread jflack
On 01/26/2016 05:51 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > What is the taperalgo setting? largestfit >>Dumps: lev datestmp tape file origK compK secs >>0 20160124 0 20550680 20550680 369 >>1 20160125 0 680 680 11 >>

Re: increments taped before level 0 ?

2016-01-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi, You can also use 'amadmin CONF find' to list all available dump. On 26/01/16 03:45 PM, jflack wrote: Hi, First time -users question, I have inherited an amanda installation. My question might be a FAQ. I notice that if I run 'amadmin daily info' after a daily run, I see a bunch of entrie

Re: increments taped before level 0 ?

2016-01-26 Thread Debra S Baddorf
> On Jan 26, 2016, at 2:45 PM, jflack wrote: > > Hi, > > First time -users question, I have inherited an amanda installation. > > My question might be a FAQ. > > I notice that if I run 'amadmin daily info' after a daily run, > I see a bunch of entries I feel comfortable with, like this one: >

increments taped before level 0 ?

2016-01-26 Thread jflack
Hi, First time -users question, I have inherited an amanda installation. My question might be a FAQ. I notice that if I run 'amadmin daily info' after a daily run, I see a bunch of entries I feel comfortable with, like this one: Dumps: lev datestmp tape file origK compK secs