Jon LaBadie wrote:

On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 08:46:05AM -0500, Jim Summers wrote:

Hello List,

I am experiencing an odd behavior from amanda. I have a client that I have been backing up for a couple of years now. A while back, I noticed that it was doing multiple level 0's on one DLE within one backup cycle. It stopped for a while but then began doing it again a couple of months ago. The pattern seems to be, when it does a level 0, then it will do another level 0 the next night, possibly a third one the night after the second. Then it will go back to incrementals. It does take a while to complete the level 0 and I am wondering if that may be throwing things off for the planner.

I recall a while ago I had an unbalanced set of DLEs.  A couple quite
large, relative to my daily "average" and a high percentage of a single
tape, and a number of very small DLEs.  Each of the large DLEs seemed
to get its level 0 on the same day every dumpcycle.  On the days there
was no large level 0 to do, amanda seemed to fill in with lots of small
level 0s.  This caused it to do level 0s multiple times during a dumpcycle
for the small DLEs.  Maybe you are seeing the same behavior?

Jean-Louis