On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 11:10:08AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 at 4:52pm, matilda matilda wrote
> 
> >until yesterday I thought I understand amanda roughly, but now I'm not 
> >sure anymore.
> >I thought that the planner tries to put as much as possible from all DLE 
> >to the tape.
> >I just installed a new tape drive with big tapes which should be big 
> >enough to hold
> >a full dump of all systems every day at the moment.
> >
> >So, why does the planner schedule incremental dumps when he could do full 
> >dumps?
> 
> Amanda's goal is *not* to fill the tapes every night.  Its goal is for the 
> backups each night to be the same size.
> 

If you want more data each dump, shorten your dumpcycle.
Even down to zero which will cause full dumps each run.

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