On 2006-03-13 15:45, Thomas Widhalm wrote:

Hi!

We have a rather old workstation running tao 1 (is RHEL 3) with amanda
amanda-2.4.4p1-0.3E.1 . Since this is too old for vdisks, we just backup
to the holding disk. But it makes lots of level 0 backups. Some
filesystems have level 0 just every day!

Vtapes (vdisks as you call them) exist since 2.4.3, so that should
not be a problem.  For the configuration see:

  http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/File_driver

Is there a way to make level incemental backups more often? Making more
fulls throughout the backup cycle is ok since we got enough space, but
not that many!

What is your schedule?  (dumpcycle, etc.)
Are these dumps promoted frequently?
How/when do you remove the older holdingdisk backups?

I never have run for an extended period with backups to holdingdisk
only.  Maybe there is some logic in Amanda that thinks you do not
have a full backup to tape, and thus creates a level 0 again.


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