Greetings. We are using amanda 2.4.2p2 (I know - it's old, but it
works fine - we'll upgrade at some point :), server & 3 clients (RH 7.2
server & client, RH 7.3 client, IRIX 6.5.19m client), doing 5x/week
level 0 only backups (compress none, dumpcycle 0, ~35GB total), to a
Sony SDX-500c AIT-II drive (50GB native tapes), with a 50 GB+ holding
disk (or 51 GB-, depending on how you look at it: use -300 MB), all of
which works fine (amverify is happy & I've successfully done actual
restores :), when the right tape is in the drive <:/
When the wrong tape is in the drive, amanda does a degraded mode level 1
backup to the holding disk. Why? Specifically: why doesn't she do a
level 0 to the holding disk, since she knows it's big enough?
Some more config info:
---BEGIN config info---
define dumptype always-full {
global
comment "Full dump of this filesystem always"
compress none
priority high
index yes
dumpcycle 0
}
dumpcycle 0 days # the number of days in the normal dump cycle -
# 0 = full every day
# runspercycle 5 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days -
# default = same as dumpcycle
tapecycle 5 tape # the number of tapes in rotation
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 # num tapes to be used in a single run of amdump
# reserve 30 # percent [default = 100%]
---END config info---
Any thoughts/insights would be appreciated. I am happy to provide more
config and/or log details as requested.
Thanks in advance,
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