* Sergei Shinkarev <sergei AT cs.utk DOT edu> [20070122 15:06]:
> Hi,
>
> I've been struggling trying to get Amanda to do incremental dumps. It
> seems no matter what I try to do Amanda will always do a level 0. I've
> looked through the log files and I there aren't any related warnings or
> errors that I could see. The tapes I'm using (LTO-3-400) do have the
> capacity to store all the level 0 dumps on one tape, however that takes
> over 24 hours to finish dumping which prevents me from running nightly
> backups. Below are the relevant portions of the config files, if anyone
> has seen something similar before or has any ideas, I would greatly
> appreciate it.
>
> ---
>
> ### Amanda config file
>
> org "icl" # your organization name for reports
>
> dumpcycle 28 # the number of days in the normal dump cycle
>
> #runspercycle 20 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days
>
> tapecycle 90 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation
> # WARNING: don't use `inf' for tapecycle, it's
> broken!
>
> 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 # number of tapes to be
> used in a single run of amdump
>
> inparallel 10
>
> dumporder "BTBTBTBTBT" # specify the priority order of each
> dumper
> # s -> smallest size
> # S -> biggest size
> # t -> smallest time
> # T -> biggest time
> # b -> smallest bandwitdh
> # B -> biggest bandwitdh
> # try "BTBTBTBTBTBT" if you are not
> holding
> # disk constrained
>
> netusage 9000 kbps # maximum net bandwidth for Amanda, in KB
> per sec
>
> etimeout 600 # number of seconds per filesystem for
> estimates.
>
> dtimeout 3600 # number of idle seconds before a dump is
> aborted.
>
> reserve 30 # percent # This means save at least 30% of the
> holding disk space for degraded
>
> columnspec
> "Disk=1:35,OrigKB=1:12,OutKB=1:12,DumpTime=1:6,DumpRate=1:6,TapeTime=1:6,TapeRate=1:6"
>
that's not sufficient (and looks ok at first sight)
give us a DLE entry, ie the output of
'amadmin <conf> disklist <hostname> <disk>'
jf
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