Peter Kunst wrote:

Hi Steve,

Steve Wray wrote:

Gaby vanhegan wrote:

Hello again!

Whilst setting up a full dump configuration to do monthly full dumps to tape, I'm torn between either:

    strategy "noinc"

or

    dumpcycle 0

To do a full dump. What's the difference here? Does it matter which one I use?

Heres my reading of what I've experienced from experimenting with these;

Suppose that a filesystem has grown too large to fit on the tape.

noinc will simply not dump that filesystem at all on that run.

dumpcycle 0 will fall back to incremental for that filesystem.

so when will amanda do a level 0 for that DLE, if that result for
dumpcycle 0 would be true ? in normal cases, amanda would simply say
"dumps too large" or something like that.

:-/

which amanda version do we speak about ?

its debian sarge, and dpkg -s tells me;
2.4.4p3-2

...i'm just testing the spanning patch. this would be another testcase.
so, thanks's for your hint :-)