On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 10:32:56AM -0500, Jeremy L. Mordkoff wrote:
> Is there a problem with running Amanda after midnight? It seems like
> amadmin .. balance is always confused as to when the next backups will
> run. I run backups Tues thru Sat mornings at 3 AM and today (Tuesday
> morning) I get
> 
> 
> [amanda@lux1 amanda]$ amadmin daily balance
> 
> 
>  due-date  #fs   orig KB    out KB  balance
> -------------------------------------------
>  4/01 Tue    0         0         0     --- 
>  4/02 Wed    0         0         0     --- 
>  4/03 Thu    1  23950230   9393310    +0.5%
>  4/04 Fri    6  20213050   8304244   -11.2%
>  4/05 Sat    1  27045090  20085958  +114.8%
>  4/06 Sun    0         0         0     --- 
>  4/07 Mon    0         0         0     --- 
>  4/08 Tue   26  25192150   8960866    -4.2%
> -------------------------------------------
> TOTAL       34  96400520  46744378  9348875  (estimated 5 runs per
> dumpcycle)
> 
>  
> The next backup is tomorrow (Wednesday) but amanda doesn't seem to think
> so.
> 
> DumpCycle is 1 week
> 
> Dumps per cycle are 5


Not sure I see where you see a problem.

Nothing is scheduled for today (already done).

The chart is showing what level 0's are scheduled
based on the 7 day cycle.  My guess is that "this
morning", Tuesday, it did 26 DLE's as Level 0's
and they are presently scheduled for the next 
level 0 on next Tuesday.

You have one huge DLE that will probably always
get backed a full backup the same day (Sat) while
the others get shifted around in an impossible
attempt to get a "balanced" run each amdump.

Probably tomorrow (Wed) you will find some of your
six Fri DLE's get promoted.  Then some of the 26
DLE's from today may get promoted to Friday.

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