tapecycle on the Diff backups (tuesday-friday) is 1 tapes.
tapecycle on Full backups (sundays) is set to 3 tapes.
Perhaps the tapecycle 1 erases other files?
Ultimately, my goal with two configurations and a tapecycle of 1 on the
diffs is that i want to be able to take a full backup on weekends (I
want it forced), yet on weekdays, do differential backups, but ON THE
SAME TAPE (i.e., there are two labels, Diff0000 and Full0000).
Any clues as to how i can get such done?
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 16:27, Tomas Maly wrote:
> Some of the files show something like this. The lines saying 'rm' don't
> look good, like the current backups remove the ones from previous days.
>
> I forgot to mention that the last backup's index is always there. But
> when the next backup does it's thing, it's gone and replaced by the next
> one.
>
> This one is called amtrmidx.20031005004325.debug: (i.e., 2003-10-05).
> This was a Sunday, and the files it's mentioning on the 'rm' lines are
> the last backups from the previous Thursday (two backups prior).
>
> There are no cron jobs. There is actually two configurations, one doing
> full backups on sundays and then differential backups during the week
> (tuesday - friday mornings). This backup on Sunday was NOT put to tape.
>
> The Full backups, on sundays, does record to /etc/dumpdates. The other
> backups, during the week, do not. Not sure if this is related. Perhaps
> is /etc/dumpdates somehow tied in?
>
> Right now, being tuesday, only have this mornings and sundays backup
> indexes on disk. If i notice any other behavior (such as it stays until
> the weekend. I have friday's as well, which seems to make sense as
> Friday was a day that wasn't put to tape.
>
> amtrmidx: debug 1 pid 9330 ruid 33 euid 33: start at Sun Oct 5 00:43:25
> 2003
> /usr/lib/amanda/amtrmidx: version 2.4.3
> tiger /novell/home
> rm /local/amanda/var/index/tiger/_novell_home/20031002_1.gz
> tiger /novell/Loans
> rm /local/amanda/var/index/tiger/_novell_Loans/20031002_1.gz
> tiger /novell/FinancialCircuit
> rm /local/amanda/var/index/tiger/_novell_FinancialCircuit/20031002_1.gz
> tiger /novell/DATA
> rm /local/amanda/var/index/tiger/_novell_DATA/20031002_1.gz
> tiger /novell/POINT
> rm /local/amanda/var/index/tiger/_novell_POINT/20031002_1.gz
> tiger /usr/cvs_root
> amtrmidx: pid 9330 finish time Sun Oct 5 00:43:27 2003
>
>
> On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 14:13, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> > Tomas Maly wrote:
> > > The index files for use with amrecover don't exist except for
> > > non-flushed backups. I look in the directory that's set as the 'index
> > > directory' in amanda.conf as well.
> > >
> > > amrecover is useless otherwise.
> > >
> > > Is this normal? I want to use amrecover to browse all backups on
> > > current tapes. "index yes" is set for all backups, and they ARE there
> > > for the non-flushed. they are at random days apart, so it's entirely
> > > because I forgot to change the tape.
> >
> > No this is not normal. They do exist on my server, and they are
> > useful for amrecover
> >
> > What is your tapecycle?
> > Is that "index" directory shared with something else?
> > A cron job that runs apart from amanda and is supposed to clean
> > up but does too much?
> > Any hints what's going on/going wrong in the debug files:
> > a/tmp/amanda/amtrmidx.timestamp.debug ?
> >
> > --
> > Paul
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Tomas Maly <tomas_maly AT financialcircuit DOT com>
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