Why do you set the strategy to NOINC if you want incremental, you
should set it to STANDARD.
Jean-Louis
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 01:21:54PM +0400, Madhvi Gokool wrote:
> [amanda@sa01 amanda]$ amadmin DailySet1 disklist localhost /etc/mrtg
> line 7:
> host localhost:
> interface default
> disk /etc/mrtg:
> program "GNUTAR"
> priority 2
> dumpcycle 0
> maxdumps 1
> strategy NOINC
> compress NONE
> auth BSD
> kencrypt NO
> holdingdisk YES
> record YES
> index YES
> skip-incr NO
> skip-full NO
>
> The skip-incr is set to NO -- should this be changed to YES???
> Regds
> Madhvi
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Bijnens" <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
> To: "Madhvi Gokool" <madhvin AT yahoo DOT com>
> Cc: <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 12:22 PM
> Subject: Re: no incremental backups when using gnu tar
>
>
> > Madhvi Gokool wrote:
> >
> > > define dumptype high-tar {
> > > root-tar
> > > comment "partitions dumped with tar"
> > > priority high
> > > dumpcycle 0
> > > compress none
> > > index
> > > }
> > > excert from disklist
> > > localhost /etc/mrtg high-tar
> > > ns01 /home/nfsuser high-tar
> > >
> > > Excerpt from a log
> > > SUCCESS dumper ns01 /home/nfsuser 20031230 2 [sec 0.355 kb 530 kps
> 1489.2
> > > orig-kb 530]
> >
> > What is the output of:
> >
> > amadmin YourConfig disklist localhost /etc/mrtg
> >
> > Does it say dumpcycle 0 too?
> > Are there other constraints, like not enough tapecapacity?
> >
> > ps. using "localhost" as the name of your computer will bite you when
> > you move your tapedrive to another computer (e.g. after a crash)
> > and you want to restore files from the previous one. Use the
> > real DNS name.
> >
> >
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