On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 15:57 +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> 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
Sorry, for misspelling. I really have to apologize. I was so sure, they
existed just in later versions. And I just couldn't find the driver for
vtapes. Could it be, that this is to be installed sperately?
>
>
> > 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.)
dumpcycle 8 days. amanda run from a script within crontab every day.
> Are these dumps promoted frequently?
Yes. Every day
> How/when do you remove the older holdingdisk backups?
There is a procedure within our script, which deletes any directory
named after a date, older than 9 days with "rm -fr"
>
> 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.
This could be it. If I get vtapes running, I could prove that. Maybe
there is another way for that. I can live with the "Tape error" it tells
me every day.
Thanks anyway for the answer.
Regards,
Thomas
>
>
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