On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 at 12:30pm, John Oliver wrote

> On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 03:27:11PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 at 10:39am, John Oliver wrote
> > 
> > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:28:37PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> > > > > dumpcycle 4 days
> > > > 
> > > > Amanda will get a full backup of every disk list entry (DLE) at least 
> > > > once 
> > > > every four days.  If you run backups M-Th, Monday is going to be a busy 
> > > > day...
> > > > 
> > > > > runspercycle 4
> > > > 
> > > > You'll run amanda 4 times per dumpcycle
> > > 
> > > Is it possible to make amanda spread the full backups out over the
> > > course of the dumpcycle?
> > 
> > That's the default course of action.
> 
> Then why would Monday be a "busy day"?

Your dumpcycle is 4 days.  By Monday night, it's been 3 days since the 
last backups on Friday night.  Therefore, several filesystems are probably 
past the 4 day limit, and *must* get a level 0.

Amanda doesn't understand weekends.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University