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Question about dump levels

2003-05-15 09:14:26
Subject: Question about dump levels
From: Randy Pearson <blueboy AT bamafolks DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 08:12:03 -0500
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Hi All,

I've been using Amanda for quite some time (3-4 years) and have been quite 
happy with it.  Thanks to all the developers for a great backup system.

Now for my question.  Does anybody know why level 0 and level 1 dumps of my 
disks would be the same approximate size always?

I thought a level 1 dump supposed to be an incremental backup, while level 0 
is a full backup.  Here are some extracts for the Amanda reports of the dumps 
of my /home disk.  Looks to me like Amanda is backing up every file, no 
matter what the dump level is.

In case it makes any difference, this occurred with both versions 2.4.3b2 and 
2.4.4.

Thanks for any advise you can give me.

Randy

May 14
- -------
DUMP SUMMARY:
                                     DUMPER STATS                TAPER STATS  
HOST  DISK             L ORIG-KB  OUT-KB COMP%  MMM:SS    KB/s  MMM:SS    KB/s
- -------------------------------- ---------------------    --------------------
zev   /home            1 7436050 4881984  65.7   43:26  1873.6   90:42   897.1

May 13
- ------
                                     DUMPER STATS                TAPER STATS
HOST  DISK             L ORIG-KB  OUT-KB COMP%  MMM:SS    KB/s  MMM:SS    KB/s
- -------------------------------- ---------------------    --------------------
zev   /home            1 7436050 4881984  65.7   43:26  1873.6   90:42   897.1

May 9
- -----
                                     DUMPER STATS                TAPER STATS
HOST  DISK             L ORIG-KB  OUT-KB COMP%  MMM:SS    KB/s  MMM:SS    KB/s
- -------------------------------- ---------------------    --------------------
zev   /home            0 7518580 4895872  65.1   42:29  1920.4   90:59   896.8
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