On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 10:59 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 04:05:00PM +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote:
> > 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!
> > >
> ...
> > > > 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.
>
> There was an "etc." up there.
> Presumably your runspercycle is also 8?
Set to 0, so it is 8.
>
> >
> > > 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"
>
> Does this keep your index dir growing; or do you trim that too?
>
> Have you tried resetting some parameters like bumpsize, bumpmult,
> and bumpdays? They may have an affect on your situation.
Thanks. I will search for these.
>
> A workaround would be to use a dumptype that does no fulls, or
> strategy incrmental only. Then daily run a cron script that
> selects the DLE's you want full dumps of and issues an amadmin
> "force" command to cause a level 0 dump the next run.
This is a rather good idea. If nothing else works out, I will try this
for sure.
Thanks.
>
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