I am having problems with AMANDA doing full backups when I don't want it
to.  I'm wondering if there is anyway to stop it.  Here is our
situation:

We have about 15 servers spread across the US.  They are connected by
T1's.  Some of the DLE's are 20GB or more and our backup window is about
12 hours during the week and the whole weekend.  Assuming we get 50%
compression, the fastest it could possibly get done is a little over 15
hours.  So, I have a cronjob that forces full backups for Friday evening
so they can run over the weekend.  Our dumpcycle is 21 days and
runspercycle is 15 days.  AMANDA is good for most of the DLE's, but
there is usually one or two through a week that will try to promote to
full backup.  Is there anyway around this?  I have to manually kill the
backup on the client server in the morning if this happens, or the
backup eats up all the bandwidth and I get user complaints.  I've tried
'amadmin config force-no-bump', but it doesn't seem to help and actually
seems to make it worse if possible.

Thanks,
Dan


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