On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 04:08:42PM -0700, Stephen D. Lane wrote:
> Greetings. We are using amanda 2.4.2p2 (I know - it's old, but it
> works fine - we'll upgrade at some point :), server & 3 clients (RH 7.2
> server & client, RH 7.3 client, IRIX 6.5.19m client), doing 5x/week
> level 0 only backups (compress none, dumpcycle 0, ~35GB total), to a
> Sony SDX-500c AIT-II drive (50GB native tapes), with a 50 GB+ holding
> disk (or 51 GB-, depending on how you look at it: use -300 MB), all of
> which works fine (amverify is happy & I've successfully done actual
> restores :), when the right tape is in the drive <:/
>
> When the wrong tape is in the drive, amanda does a degraded mode level 1
> backup to the holding disk. Why? Specifically: why doesn't she do a
> level 0 to the holding disk, since she knows it's big enough?
>
> Some more config info:
>
> ---BEGIN config info---
> define dumptype always-full {
> global
> comment "Full dump of this filesystem always"
> compress none
> priority high
> index yes
> dumpcycle 0
> }
>
> dumpcycle 0 days # the number of days in the normal dump cycle -
> # 0 = full every day
> # runspercycle 5 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days -
> # default = same as dumpcycle
> tapecycle 5 tape # the number of tapes in rotation
>
> bumpsize 20 Mb # minimum savings (threshold) to bump level 1 -> 2
> bumpdays 1 # minimum days at each level
> bumpmult 4 # threshold = bumpsize * bumpmult^(level-1)
>
> runtapes 1 # num tapes to be used in a single run of amdump
>
> # reserve 30 # percent [default = 100%]
Since this is commented, it goes to default reserve 100% for incrementals.
> Any thoughts/insights would be appreciated. I am happy to provide more
> config and/or log details as requested.
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