On Thursday 23 March 2006 06:40, Thomas Widhalm wrote:
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>Hello again,
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>Thank you very much for all your help. Amanda now runs as I expected
>with "maxpromoteday 1" and reassigning hosts to different configs. I
>have to wait for another server, till I switch to a newer amanda
>version, so I can easily adopt vtapes.
>
>Now I have another problem. I just post it into this thread, because
> it may be in connection with my setup.
>
>One of the disks can't get level 0 backuped.
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>springfield.edvz.sbg.ac.at:/mnt/bigdisk 0 planner: [dumps too big,
>20675843 KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk]
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>I raised the tapecycle but it didn't anything good.
>
>Can anybody help me, because I can't backup one of my disks at all,
> now.
While there have been patches available to allow amanda to span more
than 1 tape with a backup file, and I guess they work, its not really a
part of the basic design of amanda, which is absolute dependability
first, bells and whistles later.
The usual technique, and this requires tar, not dump, is to break that
huge disklist entry up into smaller subdir entries, and I suggest you
do that. Amanda can handle quite a lengthy list of 'dle's and do it
transparently as long as all those on the same disk are given their own
unique spindle number to keep amanda from attacking the same disk at
the same time, for 4 different dle's. I've done that for a long time
here and its worked right well I believe.
>Regards,
>Thomas
>
>Thomas Widhalm wrote:
>> > Hi!
>> >
>> > We have a rather old workstation running tao 1 (is RHEL 3) with
>> > amanda amanda-2.4.4p1-0.3E.1 . Since this is too old for vdisks,
>> > we just backup to the holding disk. But it makes lots of level 0
>> > backups. Some filesystems have level 0 just every day!
>> >
>> > Is there a way to make level incemental backups more often? Making
>> > more fulls throughout the backup cycle is ok since we got enough
>> > space, but not that many!
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Thomas
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